John Hurt Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.
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Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?
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I'm fortunate that I've been able to work on Broadway, but it doesn't give me an outside life. So I decided to go into the concert world. I do 40 to 50 shows. That takes one to three days a week, and I'm home the rest of the time.
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Summertime, this is the time that you flex.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.