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
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  • Time
  • High

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

  

  Victor Hugo
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  • World
  • Power

• I boxed 15 years in a club.

  

  Uwe Boll
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  • Club
  • Boxed

• 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
  • Cool

• 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
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  • 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
  • Study

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

  

  Gary Lucas
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  • Music
  • Listening

• 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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  • Space
  • Physics

• Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
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  • Right
  • Half

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

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Acting
  • Profession
  • Singular

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

  

  W. H. Auden
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  • Music
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• 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

• I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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  • Live
  • Fall

• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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  • School
  • Feeling

• You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

  

  Karlie Kloss
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  • Learning
  • Grow

• I've loved Leia and Han since I was seven years old. Getting a chance to tell some of their adventures? Mind-blowing on every level. I wish I could go back in time and high-five my baby self.

  

  Claudia Gray
  • Time
  • Mind
  • High

• If the Communists conquered the world, it would be very unpleasant for a while, but not forever. But if the human race is wiped out, that is the end.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Forever

• Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

  

  L. Frank Baum
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  • Start
  • Blue

• One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Me
  • Wrestling

• Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

  

  Eric Liu
  • World
  • Power
  • America

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

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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