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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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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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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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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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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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power-assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
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There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
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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.
