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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I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.
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My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood.
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I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.
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You have a Republican House, close numbers in the Senate, a Democratic president. If we're going to move forward at all as a country, we're going to have to do it by standing together.
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I try to stay away from talking about boys all the time. You can go to Taylor Swift to hear that.
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It's nice having a bear about the house.
