James D'arcy Quotes

I'm not really very ambitious.

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• I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opportunities
  • Become
  • Rally

• I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Destiny

• Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Understanding
  • Always

• I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Fan
  • Tim Burton
  • Tim

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Logic
  • Sword

• Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Period

• I like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Like
  • Rose
  • Bowl

• Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.

  

  Harold Edward Holt
  • Unique
  • Trees
  • Gum

• One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Time
  • Live
  • You

• I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Up
  • Value
  • Challenge

• Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Photography

• The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • More
  • Animals
  • Globalization

• The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Just
  • Fantasy

• We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Time
  • War
  • Past

• Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Amazing
  • Kirstie Alley

• When you're president, the Democrats got to feel good when they walk in the door if you're a Republican; if you're a Democrat, the Republican has to feel like you're listening. And you should be listening.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • President
  • Republican
  • Democrats

• I wouldn't reread Sartre today. Compared to everything I've read since, his fiction seems dated and has lost much of its value.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Today
  • Lost
  • Value

• Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously.

  

  Gerard van der Leeuw
  • Dance
  • Speak
  • Found

• I'm not really very ambitious.

  

  James D'arcy