John Hurt Quotes

Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.

John Hurt

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• The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • School
  • Reading
  • Year

• That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Feedback

• A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Father
  • Like
  • Baby

• And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Hand
  • Government
  • See

• I want to do a make-up line for men.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Want

• If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Good
  • Song
  • Feeling

• I've stayed away from doing 'urban film' because I just don't relate to the characters. I'm not going to take a role because I happen to have the same skin color.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Color
  • Doing
  • Same

• In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Simple
  • Something
  • Nobody

• Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?

  

  FKA twigs
  • Boring
  • Vulnerability

• I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • School
  • Perfect
  • Day

• The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Help
  • Death

• If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • You
  • Open
  • Mouth

• I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • People
  • Wonderful People

• 'The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to ever committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure.'

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • World
  • Evil

• Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Great
  • Hate

• If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It’s better to live somehow than not at all.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Live

• Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Long
  • Style
  • Musical

• How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

  

  Black Hawk
  • Language
  • Wrong
  • Whites

• I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I'm very grateful.

  

  Stewart Lee
  • Art
  • Jobs
  • Borderline

• As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Death

• That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Suffering
  • Opium
  • Hypothetical

• Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.

  

  John Hurt