Karl Urban Quotes
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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I have no problem with responsible gun owners who own weapons for self-protection, hunting, or just sport. The ones who believe they have a constitutional right to 100-round magazines to fight off I don't know what - a zombie apocalypse? - try to shut down dialogue with threats and other macho posing because of their flawed beliefs.
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I am at home with my kids from 6 to 8. If I have a work dinner, I'll schedule to have dinner after 8. But we're working at night. You'll get plenty of emails from me post-8 P.M. when my kids go to bed.
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I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.
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The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.
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Hip-hop at its zenith insists on thinking and dancing simultaneously. In fact, it sees them as synonymous.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
