John Rhys-Davies Quotes
When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.
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I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.
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We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.
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The agency is who it is because of many, many, many chapters that needed to happen.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this - that men despair and think things impossible.
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When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.
