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.

Pierce Brosnan

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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.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • History
  • New

• 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!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Player

• You don't have to be something to do something.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Something

• I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Want
  • Kind
  • End

• 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.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Poetry
  • Moment
  • Try

• 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.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Best
  • Always
  • Do Your Best

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Most
  • Partnership

• I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • School
  • American
  • High

• If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • You
  • Me
  • I Can

• 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.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Society

• Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Working
  • New
  • Again

• Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Nature
  • Simple
  • Rich

• 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.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Death
  • Sacrifice

• I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Singing

• 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.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Country
  • City

• It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • People
  • Cool
  • Fire

• I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Done
  • Stupid

• Uzo Aduba over at 'Godspell' is doing an even more entertaining Donald Trump than Donald Trump's Donald Trump.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Trump

• Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Minds
  • Flattery
  • Conceit

• As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

  

  Alexandra David-Neel
  • Soul
  • Freedom
  • Injury

• One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mom

• Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Proud
  • Security
  • England

• The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers...There are ...purveyors who label their 'iso-amygdalin' products 'amygdalin' contrary to all of the recognized specs...For commercial or political purposes, they certainly cannot justify such a fallacy...This scientific heresy and commercial fraud...(is) tremendously reducing the effectiveness of amygdalin therapy. ...To mislabel iso-amygdalin as amygdalin is scientifically, medically, and morally indefensible.

  

  Ernst T. Krebs
  • Nature
  • Political
  • Effectiveness

• Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

  

  Pierce Brosnan