Joe Gilgun Quotes

I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.

Joe Gilgun

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• There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Life
  • World
  • Gifts

• Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Real
  • Worry
  • Fight

• I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Want
  • You

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • You
  • Modern
  • Whatever

• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Heaven

• Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Different
  • City
  • Road

• Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Career
  • Me
  • Path

• Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • True
  • Land
  • Israel

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Intelligent
  • Attractive

• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Common
  • Two
  • Common Sense

• Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Racism
  • Excellence

• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Age
  • Responsibility
  • Sleep

• Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • People
  • Business
  • Past

• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here – is – away from the easel – into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting...

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Work
  • Today
  • Taken

• Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Work
  • Career
  • Nervous

• I have an incredibly supportive husband and family and an incredibly well-adjusted daughter.

  

  Bree Turner
  • Family
  • Husband
  • Daughter

• Overall, while the Rovi entertainment store is a nice stand-alone offering, more importantly, however, it is also a part of our total customer solution, fitting in now with our data and TotalGuide offerings.

  

  Alfred Amoroso
  • Nice
  • Alone

• I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • Work
  • Book
  • Reading