James Nesbitt Quotes
My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
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When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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We used to tell our receivers, 'If you want to run an inside breaking route, and you want to fight for yardage after the catch, you better be careful, because these defensive players, they're on the hunt.'
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The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.
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The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.
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My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.
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I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.
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My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.
