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.'

Damian Lewis

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• I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Fear
  • Intimacy
  • Thrive

• 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.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • Heart
  • Culture

• Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Myself
  • Now
  • Circle

• 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.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Moral

• 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.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Long
  • War
  • Change

• The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Country
  • Future
  • More

• 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.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Age
  • Kind

• 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.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Favorite

• Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Sometimes
  • Lose
  • Sight

• You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Listen

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• 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.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Kids
  • Know

• 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.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Up
  • Child
  • Lot

• There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Country
  • Society
  • Religious

• 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.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Better
  • Short

• I love my mom and dad.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Love
  • Dad
  • Mom

• 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.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Page

• To me, my business is my life.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • Business
  • My Life

• It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Great
  • May
  • Character

• If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

  

  Max Frisch
  • Guilty

• I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Shame
  • Self-Esteem
  • Children's Book

• 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.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Job
  • Doing
  • Saying