Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes
So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.
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So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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When people don't get enough information, they make it up.
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I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.
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But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in – make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.
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It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.
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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.
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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
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I've never changed it, never really messed with it.
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So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.
