Linus Roache Quotes
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.
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Portland is the perfect weekend getaway. I studied acting in Portland and lived there for five years. It's a small city with so much to do. There's beautiful scenery, a great bar scene, and so many fabulous restaurants.
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I was in high school in 1953 when the Committee of One Million circulated a petition urging that Red China - one third of the world's population - be excluded from the United Nations. And I remember I refused to sign it, at 14 or 15 years old.
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The question, 'What is the purpose thereof?' cannot be asked about anything which is not the product of an agent; therefore we cannot ask what is the purpose of the existence of God.
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If I'm in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That's what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.
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New York, without a doubt, is my favorite city in the world.
