John Hurt Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
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It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
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What is science? yard-measure and scale to philosophy, expert-accountant, bank clerk. What is poetry? miserable, ill-fed, underpaid, unionized labourer, pleased to oblige, grateful for work, flattering himself that poverty makes him an aristocrat.
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'This place ought never to have been dug up.'
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Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
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Oh, I've wept. Yeah, I've definitely wept just with the world, you know, how judgmental they are. You know what, I know I'm a good mom.
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We live in a multi-cultural world, so embracing diversity is important in every industry.
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I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn't born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that's how my breakups tend to play out.
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I'd always dabbled in acting.
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The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.
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Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.
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I don't think of people as black or white. It's a question of are they photogenic or not? I don't think anyone says, 'Let's book her. She's black.' I think they say, 'Let's book her. She's good.' We've come that far.
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A belief may be larger than a fact.
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I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.
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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
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I was safe here last year, but now I'm not safe anymore.
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I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.
