Tony Blair Quotes
I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles of spirituality. Taken for its time, it was an extraordinarily progressive declaration of principle. It is also extraordinary for a Christian to read: for example, there are more references to Mary than in the Gospels. The tragedy is that it has been so warped and misapplied.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.
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Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.
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His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
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It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.
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All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts.
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I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.
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I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.
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Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'
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I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles of spirituality. Taken for its time, it was an extraordinarily progressive declaration of principle. It is also extraordinary for a Christian to read: for example, there are more references to Mary than in the Gospels. The tragedy is that it has been so warped and misapplied.
