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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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've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
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When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
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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.
