Jim Sturgess Quotes
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.
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We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.
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When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
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Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.
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Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me.
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Certainly after '21' I was getting the opportunity to make a lot of money.
