Damian Lewis Quotes
You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I love my mom and dad.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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To me, my business is my life.
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Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.
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This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead.
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'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice.
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It's kinda me and Jon Stewart have a pact together – so he's making me famous in the Western world and I'm making him famous in Egypt!
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
