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Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

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• It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Bad
  • Science

• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Role
  • Genre

• If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Flying
  • Line
  • Desk

• I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Father
  • Survive
  • Twin

• I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Remember
  • Old
  • Meetings

• Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Easy
  • Hungry
  • Bread

• I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Breakfast
  • Bread
  • Diet

• We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Great
  • Know
  • Community

• Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Country
  • Earth
  • Like

• For me, I always try to make it to the final.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Always
  • Try

• Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Business
  • Together
  • Creative

• Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Fashion

• I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Life
  • Work
  • Better

• I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Idea

• One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you're constantly surprised. You never know what's going to happen, and it's certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expectations.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life

• If you watch that show and you didn't know it was called Seinfeld, you'd think it was called 'The George Costanza Show'.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Show
  • Watch

• When I'm on the road traveling, the things I miss most are my two children and barbecuing with friends. Rack of ribs, lamb and veal are my specialties.

  

  Angel Cabrera
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Road

• Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Long
  • Writing

• Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

  

  Plato
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