Jefferson Davis Quotes
...How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
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Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.
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When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
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I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
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Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.
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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.
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We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.
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State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States.
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I'm not a mass-appeal artist.
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...How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
