Dominic West Quotes
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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I've been things and seen places.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
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Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.
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I'm still swimming.
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Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.
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On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
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Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers' pension funds. Why do that, when you can just let the government take money from the workers?
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I have a weird obsession with wearing not just fashion sneakers, but actual sneakers that have bounce, because I want to feel like I'm in an active state.
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I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.
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Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
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God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.
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The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.
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I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.
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I'm a rather crude cook.
