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.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Space
  • Always
  • Warm

• 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.

  

  Natalie Martinez
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• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Game
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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.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Matter

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
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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.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Enough
  • Retirement
  • Saving

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Man
  • City
  • New York

• I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Good
  • Know
  • Good Company

• 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.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Best

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Perfect
  • Revolution
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Health
  • Wife
  • Training

• The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Emotions

• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Simplicity
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• Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Acting
  • Something
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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.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Hate
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• 'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Important
  • Way
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• In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Power
  • You
  • Underestimate

• In the past, I've been a bit diffident about my own albums, almost excusing them for some reason, even though deep down I felt strongly about them.

  

  Jesse Harris
  • Past
  • Deep

• If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Live
  • Business
  • Support

• No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Work
  • Live
  • Alone

• I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
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