James Nesbitt Quotes
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
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Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.
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Christiania has a lot of strong, nuclear families. It gave us a sense of empowerment and belonging and richness. We had so much love; we were never in doubt that we were wanted in this world.
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I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
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The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don't care what anybody says. We don't think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.
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My wife is a very strong woman.
