John Rhys-Davies Quotes
I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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There is no doubt that the majority of Kansas Citians are happy with their three-terminal airport. I will advocate in Washington for our city to keep its unique airport as long as we want it.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.
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I still listen to Ginuwine, man. I can still listen to Donell Jones.
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Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is.
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I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.
