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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My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.
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Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, unrhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.
