James McAvoy Quotes
I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don't like the term 'exercising.' I feel like with sport, you're playing games. But with exercise, you're literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It's weird.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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Underground is underground, commercial is commercial. There's market for both, and both get money.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop.
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I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don't like the term 'exercising.' I feel like with sport, you're playing games. But with exercise, you're literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It's weird.
