James Nesbitt Quotes
People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.
Quotes to Explore
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.
