Rupert Friend Quotes
It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.
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I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
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But this country is a great country and will always rebound.
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I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.
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Ignorance in certain places frightens me. The political situation of the world frightens me. Political anger around the globe frightens me. The lack of love in the world frightens me. Violence frightens me.
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I was officially advised that during the long vacation it might be profitable to attain at least a nodding acquaintance with the curriculum, and thus stave off the already likely possibility that I would receive a degree classified so low it would be tantamount to a certificate of mental disability.
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I … thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.
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Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.
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'Long Black Train' was inspired by a vision that I had of a long, black train running down this track way out in the middle of nowhere. I could see people standing out to the sides of this track watching this train go by. As I was walking, experiencing this vision, I kept asking myself, 'What does this vision mean and what is this train?'
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I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.
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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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For a firm to be exceptional, it has to be led by purpose. Our purpose is to make an impact that matters.
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In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.
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Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.
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I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.
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It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.
