James Purefoy Quotes

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

James Purefoy

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• I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Never
  • Lonely
  • Bored

• Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Organization
  • Definitely
  • Authoritarian

• My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Mother
  • Always
  • More

• I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

  

  Laura Osnes
  • First
  • Show
  • Wizard

• If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Black
  • Born

• 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.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Family
  • Love
  • Character

• For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Family
  • Food
  • Running

• Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Serious
  • Politics

• I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Done
  • Die

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Myself
  • Goal
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Great
  • Women
  • Children

• Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Habit
  • Professors
  • Simply

• I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Trying
  • Down
  • Consent

• 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.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Ideas

• 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.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Running
  • Summer
  • Start

• For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Life
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • May
  • Environment

• He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realise,' he said, 'The bitterness of Life!'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Elephant

• I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

  

  Anupam Kher
  • Live
  • Real
  • Theatre

• A covetous man's penny is a stone.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Men
  • Greed
  • Stones

• Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • King
  • Helicopter
  • Right Hand

• After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

  

  Richard Matheson
  • Feeling
  • Sorrow
  • Despair

• Ancient Rome was a violent place.

  

  James Purefoy