Michael Bond Quotes
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
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There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.
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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
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I listen to older music like AC/DC.
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
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Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.
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The standard SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1) theory of strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions appears to correctly describe physics down to the smallest distance scales yet probed.
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Some stories, she'd say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.
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It's nice having a bear about the house.
