Brendan Gleeson Quotes
I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being who we are without bending ourselves to make ourselves acceptable and expect someone to come along and see to us and rescue to us.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
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As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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More people would recognise me in Kingston, but it's rare to go on the road and not get recognised by someone. The problem now is everyone has a camera in their pocket, on their cell phone - at the airport it's difficult to get from point A to point B without taking half an hour because there are so many people taking pictures.
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Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
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Well, you know, it's fun to sign autographs still for me. I don't sign that many.
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Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.
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People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.
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-what an odd thing it is, that the indications of terror are usually ludicrous !
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There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
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You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like 'As Confucius say,' but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot.
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'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
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Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power.
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The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter!
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I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being who we are without bending ourselves to make ourselves acceptable and expect someone to come along and see to us and rescue to us.
