Jason Statham Quotes
If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you have those moments of tension and a splash of visual fun, then you kind of get everything. You get your money's worth.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.
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And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become such an impassioned Chief Justice on all sorts of human rights issues, was very big in the internment process. And I think that we simply sometimes tend not to understand or remember how people felt.
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you don't owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes.
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If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you have those moments of tension and a splash of visual fun, then you kind of get everything. You get your money's worth.
