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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We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.
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What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent "self' life," and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.
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Unkindness is quite a major sin.