Matt Smith Quotes
At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.
Quotes to Explore
-
There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
-
I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
-
I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
-
Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
-
I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
-
Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
-
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
-
I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.
-
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
-
Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
-
People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
-
The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
-
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
-
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
-
The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
-
Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
-
There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.
-
Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.
-
'Ki And Ka' in a very sweet way says that if you have talent, then gender doesn't matter.
-
Look at my track record: All of the big hits we created in Holland worked globally.
-
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
-
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"?
-
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
-
At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.
