Ian Fleming Quotes

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
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  • Great
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• I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Nature
  • Hurt
  • Flirtatious

• Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • America
  • Politics
  • Personal

• At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out of foster care, defining what they need, and giving a community of supporters a simple and clear way to fulfill those needs, we can produce radically improved outcomes for youth.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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• People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • People
  • Words
  • Language

• But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Artist
  • Poet
  • Embarrassing

• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wish
  • Nothing
  • Remarkable

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Friends
  • College
  • Forever

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Moral

• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • House
  • Violence

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• I'm just a worker.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Just
  • Worker

• It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Dream
  • Boy
  • Superhero

• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Friend
  • Trust
  • Dark

• But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Death
  • Running
  • Lovers

• I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Important
  • Photographer
  • Democratic

• I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Present

• Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Up
  • Career
  • Language

• My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Dad
  • Teenager

• Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Practice
  • Effort