Ralph Fiennes Quotes
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.
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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
