Karl Urban Quotes
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
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I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.
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In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.
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Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom
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Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
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The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
