John Hurt Quotes
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
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Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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The Republicans are coming - make nice.
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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
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When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
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There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
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Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.
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I think Trump's going to make it easier to be a drug company in America.
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The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
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I'm horribly self-critical.
