John Rhys-Davies Quotes
I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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The feigning sleeper can delude others - he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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'Sounds to me as if you want journalists,' Timberlane said.'No, sir, we require steady men with integrity. This is not a scoop, it’s a way of life.'
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I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.
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You were born with compassion, only that also means that when people are cruel to you it cuts you deep. You won't understand that you have to walk right up to the ones who are being hateful and laugh in their faces and earn their respect. Instead you'll try to figure out what you did to make them mad at you.
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I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.
