Douglas Booth Quotes
I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration; the fact that he plays my father in 'Noah' was amazing.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I was rubbish at school.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad. This was more than my mom knew; she didn't even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old.
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It's very important to hold on to what you want. In front of you is very easy fame and very easy money.
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Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.
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You might think otherwise, but it doesn't naturally follow that because a law has been passed by Congress and signed by the president, said law actually has to be implemented.
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I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration; the fact that he plays my father in 'Noah' was amazing.
