Jeremy Irons Quotes
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It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
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I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
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While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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Miami is nothing like me, and that's why I need to be here - it's the opposite. I'm practical, where this place is moody, I'm stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and I'm materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - there's a quicksilver quality about this place.
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We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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I was at a photo shoot, and I was wearing a cross necklace that my mom bought me, and somebody made a joke like, 'Why are you wearing a cross? Like you would be religious.' And then they took it away. I was really affected by that. The whole thing made me realize that I do want a cross with me at all times.
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It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
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I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.
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If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm caused, especially to children, by the pernicious doctrine of original sin, a case could be made for saying that the world would have been better off without Christianity.
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There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief.
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I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.
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I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end.
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Never practice something you're good at. All it will lead to is one major strength with many downfalls.
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I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.
