Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
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If I'm being honest, I'm sad even right now because I've been Darth Maul for several years and we've been through a lot together, me and that guy. Saying goodbye was - there was some sorrow but there was a great satisfaction in having that closure. And in a weird way, I think Darth Maul shared my satisfaction with that.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
