Brian Blessed Quotes
When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it.
Quotes to Explore
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I believed I was invincible.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
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How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.
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At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
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I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
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When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it.
