John Hurt Quotes
I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought.John Hurt
Quotes to Explore
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
Bashar al-Assad -
Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
Yahya Jammeh -
The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
Edmund Phelps -
It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
Candice Swanepoel -
I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
Patricia Millett -
My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
Vince Vaughn
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
Ira Glass -
My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
Paige VanZant -
Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
Owen Paterson -
Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
Ted Cruz -
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
Hanoi Hannah -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
Tatyana Tolstaya -
We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
Xavier Becerra -
I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
Omari Hardwick -
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
Garth Brooks -
The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
Jack Dorsey -
My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
W. E. B. Griffin
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People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.
Gayle King -
It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, though I have to go there very often.... Have you ever noticed that no American writer of any consequence lives in Manhattan? Dreiser tried it (after many years in the Bronx), but finally moved to California.
H. L. Mencken -
Taking care of yourself is the most important thing.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
Money is really only important if you don't have any.
Harrison Ford -
People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.
Pam Houston -
I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought.
John Hurt