Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

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• If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • People
  • Time
  • High

• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

  

  Naomi Klein
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  • Long
  • Writing

• I boxed 15 years in a club.

  

  Uwe Boll
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• If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.

  

  Victoria Justice
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  • Time
  • Best

• I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.

  

  Laura Harrier
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  • Girl
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• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

  

  Sam Shepard
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  • Way
  • Acting

• Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

  

  Ted Nugent
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  • American
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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
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• Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
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• Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

  

  Edie McClurg
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  • Singular

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
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  • Best

• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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  • Time
  • Lost

• I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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  • Long
  • Myself

• For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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  • Long
  • Career

• At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Body
  • Blood
  • Leave

• I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Earth
  • Read
  • Scripture

• 'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Help
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  • Wisdom

• Part of the bigger problem with Donald Trump is, when you sit and talk to him one-on-one, he's reasonable, he comes across as caring, he's open-minded, but then, all of that just is thrown out the window when he tweets and when he communicates with the media - and when he communicates at all.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Trump
  • Caring

• Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That's our story, and we're sticking to it.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • Water

• Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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  • Years