James Purefoy Quotes
I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'
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I'm a proud family man.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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My brother and I have always had this theory that, as stupid as it sounds, in video games, there is a certain hand-eye coordination and a thought process that you can learn.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
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Millennials don't believe that government is the most effective in solving problems, and that lack of faith in big government is an opportunity for Republicans to win over millennials.
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Every role I do is a dream role for me because I can't imagine I'm doing it.
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I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.
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I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'
