John Hurt Quotes
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
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Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
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People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.
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Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
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I don't really like pants, man. I like tights. I'm not really a pants person. I choose not to wear pants.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.
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With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!
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It's hard to connect to these superheroes that are completely out of this world. But Spider-Man is first and foremost Peter Parker, who we can all relate to.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.
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You can't have rainbows without rain.
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Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
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I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.
