John Rhys-Davies Quotes
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
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Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.
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From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!
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It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.
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I don't know how to play evil.
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Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.
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The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
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'It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.''Ob...obseek...?''Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: ‘Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.’'
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I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained. (Hays translation)
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Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must?
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When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that's what has made me successful.
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I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
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When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.
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I am really Method-y.
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When I travel the country, I am often struck by how much we actually have in common. It's much more powerful than how much there is that's reported that divides us.
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Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body.
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Unkindness is quite a major sin.
