Joel Edgerton Quotes
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.
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I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.
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My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.
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I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.
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Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
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You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.
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Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.
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Gene Hackman was a superstar in the '70s - with that face!
