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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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
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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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If you calculate the price of everything in this world, you will miss out on the real important things.5
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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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In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
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Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.
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Being happy is the cornerstone of all that you are! Nothing is more important than that you feel good! And you have absolute and utter control about that because you can choose the thought that makes you worry or the thought that makes you happy; the things that thrill you, or the things that worry you. You have the choice in every moment.
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Unkindness is quite a major sin.
