R. S. Thomas Quotes
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
Jacky Ickx
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
Beau Willimon
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
Adam DeVine
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
Barton Gellman
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
Jack Falahee
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
Damian Lewis
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
Gabriel Marcel
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
Daniel Craig
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
Samuel Goldwyn
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
Olly Murs
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Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
Kate Clinton
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
Aaron Staton
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
Parker Posey
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
Patrick Duffy
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I had actually sent an audition tape for Simon Pegg's movie 'Hot Fuzz,' which came to nothing. Four years after the film released, out of nowhere, I got a call saying the producers of 'Game of Thrones' wanted me to play Hodor after they had seen that particular tape.
Kristian Nairn
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.
Marilyn vos Savant
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I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
Loretta Lynn
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For film and theater, you know how the story starts; you know how the story ends. With TV, you don't. It's literally like living real life in character.
Costa Ronin
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I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.
R. S. Thomas