John Rhys-Davies Quotes
There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.
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Lindsey Graham is now the seventh Republican running for president. If you're keeping score, that's basically one Republican candidate for every two Republican voters.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially.
