James Nesbitt Quotes

When I was at drama school, I was totally broke, and a lot of my mates had jobs and were financially very good to me, so if, for example, I take them away on a trip to a football match in Europe, it means that I can pay them back a bit.

James Nesbitt

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• Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Global

• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Satisfaction
  • Only
  • Mutual

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Politics
  • Research
  • Peers

• My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Family
  • She

• It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Yourself
  • Individual

• AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Design
  • Windows
  • iPhone

• My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • High

• Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Read
  • Wrote

• What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Good
  • Done

• While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Women
  • Power
  • More

• I definitely want to teach my daughter Spanish.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Daughter
  • Teach

• Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Education
  • Democracy
  • Greatness

• Red lips don't look good on blotchy, uneven skin.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • Good
  • Red

• To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

  

  George Eliot
  • Play
  • Woman
  • Discipline

• I didn't have good grades until I started dancing, because I didn't try - I didn't see the point. Once I realized why I wanted to go to college, I started to study and do well. I knew I had to have a certain GPA to get in.

  

  Kyle Abraham
  • Good
  • Why
  • College

• Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.

  

  Corita Kent
  • Understanding
  • Psalms

• When I was at drama school, I was totally broke, and a lot of my mates had jobs and were financially very good to me, so if, for example, I take them away on a trip to a football match in Europe, it means that I can pay them back a bit.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Good
  • School
  • Football