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

• Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

  

  Euripides
  • Children
  • Trouble
  • Spring

• There is only the present. A painting is an instant of time that has escaped oblivion.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Present
  • Painting
  • Oblivion

• God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.

  

  Enrique Penalosa
  • God
  • Happy
  • Animals

• For the future, be true to yourself. If you're gonna be influenced by someone be influenced by them. Don't cop them so much that you're a clone. No one wants to deal with a clone. There's not that much more substance in being a clone, but definitely be influenced by people...take what you can from that and sculpt it into your own situation. In doing so, you'll be happy and I think your people will be happy listening to what you do.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Listening

• He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Profit
  • Villainy