Jeremy Irons Quotes
I do what I do because I like doing it. I'm well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it's worth.
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
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Who doesn't love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?
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Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.
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I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.
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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
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If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.
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I do what I do because I like doing it. I'm well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it's worth.
