Iain Pears Quotes

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

Iain Pears

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• I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Parents

• There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Different
  • Personality
  • Relationships

• True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • True
  • Influence

• Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Education
  • Nothing
  • Priority

• Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Products
  • Lawsuits
  • Prod

• You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Best

• Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Want
  • Limits
  • Welcome

• People never notice anything.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Never
  • Anything

• I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Way
  • Audience
  • Favorite

• There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.

  

  Luke Donald
  • Good
  • Work
  • Game

• I signed 'Aurangzeb' because I loved the story. I thought it was an untold tale. For whatever reason, the audience did not like the film. Fair enough, but I still enjoyed the process.

  

  Arjun Kapoor

• I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Song
  • Crazy

• There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

  

  George Carlin
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• The biggest misconception about Black Lives Matter is that BLM is just one entity; Black Lives Matter is an organization and a network. We are a part of the movement, but we are not the movement.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • Black
  • Organization

• An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Home

• I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Brand
  • Davey Havok
  • AFI-liner

• A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life, I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox, I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does.

  

  Melania Trump
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mom

• Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Products
  • Lawsuits
  • Prod

• Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Soul
  • Dream
  • Goal

• The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Risk
  • Profit
  • Losses

• He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Profit
  • Villainy