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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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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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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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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And everybody got they opinionsBut they ain't got no money
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What is Juche the subject in our Party's ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country's revolution, but precisely in the Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, constitutes Juche in the ideological work of our Party. Therefore, all ideological work must be subordinated to the interests of the Korean revolution.
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Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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I read kind of serious books about fairly arcane subjects.
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We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.
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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother.
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I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.
