Boris Johnson Quotes
One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.
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When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I'm fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.
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Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.
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It was really important to us to strip back the songs to the way that they were written. The way that I think music brings us together, like we’re in the living room, so I can kind of push the walls down. And especially with some of these more sensitive songs, and to present them in that raw acoustic way was a really exciting way to introduce the new music.
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One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
