Jamie Dornan Quotes

I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

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• We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

  

  Ice T
  • Rap
  • Year
  • Old

• Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Beauty

• I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.

  

  J. Cole
  • Different
  • Why
  • Black

• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Acting

• My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.

  

  Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Father

• It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Strange
  • Example
  • Setting

• I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Know
  • Never
  • End

• People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Work
  • Faith

• For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Fear
  • Rich
  • Marketing

• I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Myself

• I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Politics
  • Impact
  • Governments

• I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Better

• I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Music
  • School
  • Age

• But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Country
  • Enough
  • Corruption

• Certain struggles never end.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Never
  • End
  • Struggles

• In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Business
  • Succeed

• The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Good
  • Art
  • Now

• I didn't have a record player.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Player
  • Record

• My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • Father
  • Attention

• We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Peace
  • Process
  • Represent

• You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Giving
  • Credit

• Me, personally, I don’t want any restrictions. But I’m not a doctor or a trainer, so I’ve just got to listen to them.

  

  Zion Williamson
  • Listen
  • Trainer
  • Restrictions

• This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

  

  James Pinckney Miller

• I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

  

  Jamie Dornan