James Purefoy Quotes
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
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For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.
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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.
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I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
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I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when you take parents who are forcing their children to do anything, I don't think it's healthy.
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
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I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.
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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
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I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.
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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
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Our environment may and should mean something towards us which is not to be measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.
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Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push up bras.
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The East would always present that calm face of faint astonishment, unmoved at the anger, not understanding the bitterness.
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People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time - but even on the best day nobody's perfect.
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If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.
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Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind.
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Ancient Rome was a violent place.
