Jeremy Irons Quotes
It was a better time to be a young actor when I started out. There was a repertory system where you could go and practise.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
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Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.
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In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
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In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.
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Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.
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So long as you've got one good eye, the other one is just back-up.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.
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When I go to New York, all the skycaps want my autograph.
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It was a better time to be a young actor when I started out. There was a repertory system where you could go and practise.
