Oliver Reed Quotes
I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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A lot of people are scared to come visit my hometown, but to me, violence is everywhere, man.
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Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from wielding sabers or masks.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
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When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
