John Hurt Quotes
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Everyone has hiccups in their families.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.
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The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or to correct it, so I am aware of identity and race as being much more fluid, I think, than someone who is "purely" one thing or the other. And acting does challenge me to address those particular issues.
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In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It's literature for me; it's art.
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There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.
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Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.
