James Nesbitt Quotes

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

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• The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Want
  • Know
  • Queen

• People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'

  

  Laura Harrier
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Art
  • May
  • Dream

• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • World
  • May

• Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Love
  • America
  • Freedom

• A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Simple
  • Present

• Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Work
  • Business
  • Question

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Party
  • Question
  • Independent

• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • May
  • Police
  • Year

• Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • May
  • Joy

• Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • May
  • Ideas
  • Enough

• If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • May
  • Think
  • Lose

• All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • May
  • Interesting

• Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • May
  • Book
  • Society

• May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • May
  • Perfect

• The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • May
  • Person
  • Evidence

• America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Power
  • America
  • Hope

• I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.

  

  Mark Zupan
  • World
  • College
  • Hurt

• I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • I Believe
  • Creation
  • Creature

• I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• With the proper motivation, you can do anything. I was just a poor kid that ate pork and beans out of a can and apple sauce. I went from rags to riches. But it does take a lot of determination, inner strength, drive, and discipline.

  

  Lee Haney
  • Discipline
  • motivation
  • Determination

• I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • May
  • Question