Plato Quotes
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
Idris Elba -
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin -
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Sam Harris -
Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Frances Perkins
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
Ed Sheeran -
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
Ralph Fiennes -
Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
Patricia Riggen -
I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
Umberto Eco -
I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
Felicity Kendal -
Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
Ed Oxenbould
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
Frances McDormand -
There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
Gary Johnson -
I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
Yara Shahidi -
The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
Jack Hannah -
What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
Salar Kamangar -
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
Barry Sanders -
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
Pablo Casals -
Through my work at the Katie Piper Foundation, I've seen how the smallest of kindness can make a difference to someone's life. Even a simple smile instead of a start can lift someone's heart.
Katie Piper -
The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This is why a Christian should learn not to let anyone easily create an evil conscience in him. Rather let him say, "This error and this failing pass away with my other imperfections and sins, which I must include in the article of faith: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.
Martin Luther -
Through obedience learn to command.
Plato