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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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 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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Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?
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Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.
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I didn't feel so different until maybe, like, around third grade. Kids started blaming me for my people killing Jesus.
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When we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.
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Maybe I think too much.
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Ancient Rome was a violent place.
