John Rhys-Davies Quotes
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
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You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.
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My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.
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Western Christianised Europe has values and experience that is worth defending.
