James Nesbitt Quotes

Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.

James Nesbitt

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• Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Money
  • Crazy
  • Teen

• The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Up
  • Military
  • Generation

• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • City
  • Fashion
  • Year

• I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Communication
  • Speed
  • Reader

• I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Time
  • Running
  • Green

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • American
  • You
  • College

• I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Writing
  • High
  • Day

• Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Community
  • Greed

• It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Earth
  • Control
  • Sky

• If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • You
  • Know
  • Got

• Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you're a heel.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Social Media

• London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Loved
  • Girlfriend
  • London

• You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Money
  • Future

• Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Horror
  • Slaves

• I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Guilty

• When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Laughter

• A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.

  

  Edward Coke
  • Friend
  • Wife
  • Cool

• When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Character
  • Bad
  • House

• We all have to think about the emerging markets.

  

  Peggy Johnson

• I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.

  

  Kenya Barris

• Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

  

  Charles Jencks
  • People
  • Beautiful

• I built a global brand Mugler, and we did things that inspired so many people. I'm proud to have helped some amazing people express themselves in new ways. What I appreciate most in the world is to have met and befriended incredible geniuses, like David Bowie and Cyd Charisse and Celia Cruz, who was the goddess of salsa. I saw people kneeling on the streets for her. Which they did for me in Japan. That was really embarrassing.

  

  Thierry Mugler
  • People
  • World
  • Proud

• Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.

  

  James Nesbitt