Jim Broadbent Quotes
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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Federal regulations should promote safety without unnecessarily burdening small firms and costing much-needed jobs.
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I have a very small public.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
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When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
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My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.
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The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
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If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
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There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.
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Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.
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A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
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I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.
