Javier Bardem Quotes

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

Javier Bardem

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• The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Work
  • Internet
  • Movement

• You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • You
  • More
  • Fish

• They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Day

• I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Act

• I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

  

  Lady Gaga
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  • More
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• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
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• My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live
  • Man
  • Perfect

• When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time
  • Music
  • Myself

• An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Job
  • Artist
  • Mirror

• My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
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  • Big
  • Lips

• I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Play
  • Understand
  • Weapons

• I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.

  

  Raf Simons
  • World
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.

  

  Calista Flockhart
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• I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.

  

  T-Pain
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  • Matter

• You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

  

  Marat Safin
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  • Want
  • Run

• I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Life
  • Always
  • Teenager

• My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Child
  • Destiny
  • Hill

• No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Job

• I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • God
  • Country

• I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school.

  

  Eminem
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• Let's face it. To win 300 games, you have to win 15 games a year for 20 years. Not many guys are going to want to pitch 20 years.

  

  Don Sutton
  • Games
  • Guys
  • Pitch

• Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when Benazir Bhutto failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her first two years in government during her first term and in fact had a tenure that was marked not only by gross corruption but by human rights abuses, that should have been a time for people to say, "Well, OK, we've given you an opportunity and you haven't bettered the institutions, you haven't strengthened the democratic cause - we may not vote you back."

  

  Fatima Bhutto
  • People
  • Believe
  • Opportunity

• I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

  

  Javier Bardem