Rupert Penry-Jones Quotes
Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
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We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.
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If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.
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They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
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I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
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Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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I enjoy walking through Nolita and Chinatown, watching the people and the buildings, browsing through shops and stopping at little cafes for a cup of coffee or glass of wine.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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I've always had an interest in broadcast journalism and the law. So it's nice that I can combine the two.
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Like an ambassador that beds a queenWith the nice caution of a sword between.
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Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.
