Pierce Brosnan Quotes
Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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When you work crazy TV hours, you got to have a good sense of humor.
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I don't think I could last in anything for 10 years doing a character.
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Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
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Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.
