Pierce Brosnan Quotes
Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.
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Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.
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When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.
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As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it.
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The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
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I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!
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Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
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Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.
