Quintin Jardine Quotes
For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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Women drive box office.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.
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It's impossible to start making a weapon only when the war already started!
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My mom, she cooks the best pound cakes in the world.
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I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.
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For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.
