James Purefoy Quotes

I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.

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• I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Good
  • Why
  • Know

• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Community
  • Peace

• There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Up
  • Deep

• I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Home
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Spanish
  • Court
  • Jews

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Done

• I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Good
  • Think
  • Movies

• I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Great
  • Down
  • Dirty

• Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Man
  • Being
  • Silly

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Middle
  • East
  • Obviously

• Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Better
  • Someone
  • Cynicism

• Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • People
  • Up
  • Perfect

• I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

  

  Feist
  • Time
  • Studios
  • Proper

• My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Political
  • Culture
  • Place

• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Sacrifice
  • Race

• We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Great
  • Help

• I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more, not to think more, but allow the fever of saying to make me sleepy, and fondle, with closed eyes, as if to a cat, all that I could have said.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Eyes
  • Thoughts
  • Tired

• I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. I'm proud to say I was the first to stop running.

  

  Jonathan Keltz
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Stop

• The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.

  

  Caroline Dhavernas
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Reason

• I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.

  

  James Purefoy
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