Jamie Dornan Quotes

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

Jamie Dornan

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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

• 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

• I didn't have a record player.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Player
  • Record

• We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Education
  • Child
  • Need

• I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Alone

• Instead of fantasizing about food, I'm fantasizing about the WWE championship.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Food

• I occasionally read digital books when I'm traveling, but I do so begrudgingly.

  

  John Romaniello

• What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain­slack brain workers, nor heart­sick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word 'commonwealth.'

  

  William Morris
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Mean

• For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I've reached a stage where I think, 'I've got red curly hair, and it's actually really great.'

  

  Bonnie Langford
  • Great
  • Hair
  • Red

• Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Intelligent

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

  

  Jamie Dornan