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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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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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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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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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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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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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 don't judge anybody because I've been the one to party and look for the after party to begin! I have more fun now both when I DJ and in general.
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I'll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don't really do the Hollywood party thing. I'd rather watch sports or play videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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We used to play a lot of Fela Kuti in the early days of hip-hop. In my DJ sets I'll jump off into rock, salsa, African. I like to play some crazy stuff and see the vibrations of the people.
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Walking, it turns out, is a sublime way to get to know people in China. They're used to meeting strangers on the road. Many here understand what it feels like to walk a long way.
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Ancient Rome was a violent place.
