John Rhys-Davies Quotes
I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
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The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
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I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.
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Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator.
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I look for a girl without pretense who is sweet and intelligent - preferably brunette, but that's not completely important.
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We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.
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I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes. So be open about some of your own struggles or express gratitude that your kids are taking advantage of the opportunities they have instead of squandering many of them, the way you did.
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I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with.
