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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I think the reason I've survived that long is because I've taken my work so seriously. Maybe sometimes too seriously, but it's always been important for me to do my best regardless of the film. I think the biggest compliment I get is when people on the street stop me and say they've liked the choices I've made.
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Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.
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I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
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I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
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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.
