Jeremy Irons Quotes
I wanted to become an actor because I wanted to become a gypsy. I wanted to live the gypsy life!Jeremy Irons
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
Eartha Kitt -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
Victor Garber -
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
Ed Bradley -
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
Barry O'Farrell
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
Venus Williams -
In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
Padgett Powell -
We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
Oriana Fallaci -
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
e. e. cummings -
I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
Forest Whitaker
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
Mac DeMarco -
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Federico Garcia Lorca -
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
Warren Bennis -
Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
Faran Tahir -
I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
Valeria Golino -
I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
Carine Roitfeld
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Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
We clarified that without a clear abandonment of the path of terror, a recognition of Israel's right to exist in security and peace ... Israel won't have any contact with the Palestinians.
Ehud Olmert -
Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.
Ian Lawton -
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
Sam Harris -
Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.
Laurell K. Hamilton -
I wanted to become an actor because I wanted to become a gypsy. I wanted to live the gypsy life!
Jeremy Irons