Samuel Rutherford (Rev Prof Samuel Rutherford) Quotes
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The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
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When discussing things with someone, it is best to speak appropriately about whatever the subject may be. No matter how good what you are saying might be, it will dampen the conversation if it is irrelevant.
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The customer is usually wrong; but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so.
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It was virtually impossible to think of a sentence that made a positive use of that dreadful word ‘enough’, let alone one that started raving about ‘nothing’.
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I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal Court Theatre, a fabulous career break. Then two weeks in I began suffering the most horrendous pain and had to pull out. Sadly, by the time I'd recovered, the show's run had ended.
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I grew up with a concept of cinema as a directorial thing, meaning the director is allowed to sail the ship. Not a dictatorial thing.
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One of my favorite directors is Clint Eastwood, and I hear about the way he works, and I think I'm of a similar style. Very few takes - you get what you take, and you move on. It's very much a job and work.
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I've got 'trust' tattooed on me, and I have a tattoo on my finger that's for my parents.
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Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperative that we diversify the resources used in generating electricity.
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Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.
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Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.
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Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.
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I think being a young female star must be really, really pretty rough.
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One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Fans make you understand it was more than music to them. It was a movement, a voice they felt they didn't have that we expressed for them.
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At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'
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A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.
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It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.
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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
