John Hurt Quotes
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.
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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
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You're going to start seeing open-source, self-executing contracts gradually improve over time. What the Internet did to publishing, blockchain will do to about 160 different industries. It's crazy.
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I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
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I'm not afraid to eat breakfast at three in the morning. As a kid, I used to go to bed at 8 P.M., wake up at 1 A.M. when my grandma would cook me breakfast, and then I'd pass out again.
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Little Zac had it easy – but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.
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I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.
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I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
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People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.
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Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
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It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
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I don't want to be known as this bitter, ex-Scientologist. I'm not trying to bash anybody, and I'm not trying to be controversial. I just want people to know the truth.
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All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Russia and the USA are two largest nuclear powers in the world; it's a really important relationship. How do we start making this work? How do we live with one another? How do we work with one another? We simply have to find a way to go forward.
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I find it hard to imagine that anyone could be intimidated by me.
