Jim Brown Quotes
When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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The fact is that Superman isn't around because he is the oldest superhero. He's still around because he is a great superhero. He's the guy that spawned the entire genre, and that didn't happen because it was a mediocre idea.
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If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.
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It's OK to have a little bit of curve.
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No, Mr. Williams, certainly not; if Mr. Drake a solicitor of the English Railway Company has purchased a 'Turner', he ought to know it is a Turner; I was once silly enough to look at a picture that I was told had been painted by me, and I found myself soon after stuck up in a witness-box, giving evidence about it; I then said I'll never be so silly again.
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The work that needs to be done now is to diversify the picture of LGBTQ people so that people can see that we come from all races, different genders; we have trans people.
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Candor is the key to collaborating effectively. Lack of candor leads to dysfunctional environments.
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When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.
