Alexander Skarsgard Quotes

I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.

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• Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Waste
  • Waste Of Time

• Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Team
  • Acting

• Im Reiche der Zwecke hat alles entweder einen Preis oder eine Würde. Was einen Preis hat, an dessen Stelle kann auch etwas anderes als Äquivalent gesetzt werden; was dagegen über allen Preis erhaben ist, mithin kein Äquivalent verstattet, das hat eine Würde.

  

  Immanuel Kant

• A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Children

• 'That’s been a hashtag fail.' And on the temptations stemming from a life of crime: 'With the bling and everything that comes with it.'

  

  Jack Layton
  • Life

• The Hudson's Bay Company, before their misfortunes in the late war, had been much more fortunate than the Royal African Company.

  

  Adam Smith
  • War

• We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Giving

• The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Technology
  • Effort
  • Military

• Other than Caroline's in New York, I pretty much haven't done clubs. That was primarily because I always liked the people and audiences at theaters and bars better.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • People
  • Done
  • Pretty

• Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

  

  Pierre Dukan
  • America
  • Present
  • Addiction

• People say you can't change the world. But you can change people.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • World

• My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Work
  • Done
  • Strong

• For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you're doing something good.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Good
  • Mother

• Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.

  

  Billy Beane
  • World
  • Why
  • Friends

• John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

  

  Bradley Whitford
  • Past
  • Brain
  • Couple

• When Charlie Crist went independent, I no longer supported him. Just track the money.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Money
  • Independent

• When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

  

  Ty Pennington
  • House
  • Tree

• He weights losses about twice as much as gains, which is normal.

  

  Daniel Kahneman

• We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.

  

  Bob Graham
  • War
  • Responsibility
  • Military

• Our glories float between the earth and heaven Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun, And are the playthings of the casual wind.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Heaven
  • Wind
  • Glories

• Once you're in a position where you can choose to not be around toxic environments, just do that as much as you can.

  

  Frankie Cosmos

• As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the 'bad guys!'

  

  Cheech Marin
  • Bad

• I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard