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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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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We must wholeheartedly believe in free will. If free will is a reality, we shall have made the correct choice. If it is not, we shall still not have made an incorrect choice, becauee we shall not have made any choice at all, not having a free will to do so.
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My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.
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Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.
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I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.
