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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My view is instead of political discussions, persuasions, which dominate democracy, in our country we have taken our democracy to the other extreme. There is no debate, sufficient debate. There is court debate.
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Combining magic with technology is a good way to influence the trajectory of where technology is going and show people what technology could be in our lives and what it shouldn't be.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
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Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.
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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.
