James Purefoy Quotes

We shot the first season of 'Hap and Leonard' towards the end of the summer in Louisiana, in and around Baton Rouge. If anyone's been to Louisiana or comes from Louisiana, they know what the weather's like down there at that time of year: it's unbearably hot for an Englishman.

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• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Try
  • Boring

• I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Mom
  • Hard
  • Accent

• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Early
  • Brown
  • Earned

• I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Misunderstood
  • Pattern

• They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Physician

• It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Important
  • Home
  • American

• The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Simple
  • Will

• If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Hand
  • Military
  • Fight

• There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Myself
  • Sick
  • Laugh

• In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Great
  • Deep

• A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Changed
  • Lot
  • Survivor

• I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.

  

  Inara George
  • Think
  • Like
  • I Can

• Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Design
  • New
  • Create

• I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

  

  Harold Prince
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Remember
  • Want

• I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Chemistry
  • Almost
  • Algebra

• I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Power

• I'm a writer. I'm moonlighting on television. I never made any pretensions to that. As much as I like being on 'Real Sports,' I have been a writer since I was a little boy, and that's still my first love.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Real
  • Sports
  • Boy

• I've always been attracted to the darker things in life. I was never one to go for light, airy stuff, even as a child. My whole aesthetic has always been one of the darker side. That rings true also in my tastes in music. It's just always something I've gravitated to naturally.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Life
  • Music
  • True

• Being able to dedicate 100 per cent of my time to impacting more businesses without being operational, it just gives me a bigger platform.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Time

• If you fold your clothes in the formal spark of joy, you can actually make the joy last longer.

  

  Marie Kondo
  • Joy

• We shot the first season of 'Hap and Leonard' towards the end of the summer in Louisiana, in and around Baton Rouge. If anyone's been to Louisiana or comes from Louisiana, they know what the weather's like down there at that time of year: it's unbearably hot for an Englishman.

  

  James Purefoy
  • Time
  • Summer