James Nesbitt Quotes

My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.

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• I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

  

  Randall Park
  • Want
  • Like
  • See

• My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dream
  • Black
  • Champion

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Believe
  • Fun

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Know

• I need to meet people to be able to write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • People
  • Need
  • Meet

• You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Stop
  • Yourself
  • Need

• By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Nation
  • Rat

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Work
  • Talent
  • Hard Work

• I can't touch Simon anymore.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Touch
  • Anymore
  • Simon

• I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Comfortable

• Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • True
  • Land
  • Israel

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Crazy

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we always make that time to have that 'family together' day because we want to. You can't let work and life get in the way of spending time together.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't know whether you recall how Albany got started. There were two little guys who went up there first. One was Cordell Hull who was then in his teens - not Cordell Hull - Cordell Reagan, who came out of the Nashville movement, and Charles Sherrod, who came out of the Richmond, Virginia, movement.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Firsts

• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Compassion
  • Patience

• It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World

• You need to get to the future, ahead of your customers, and be ready to greet them when they arrive.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Future
  • Customers

• My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Dad