Ray Winstone Quotes
All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that's about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers and flats.
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If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.
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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
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The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
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Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.
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When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.
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I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.
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Michael Jackson's one of my favorite artists of my whole life. In fact, I think he is my favorite. It's one of the first things I fell in love with before I learned about genres and before I knew what was cool to like.
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I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.
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In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.
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No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.
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All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that's about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
