Jeremy Irons Quotes
There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
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Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.
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I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.
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Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear.
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Audition is the worst thing. It's like cleaning furniture in a department store.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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A great deal of bargaining power with suppliers. We are never locked in to anyone.
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There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.
