Lord Mountbatten Quotes
What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
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Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.
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The simple facts of Chadian life - what it takes to survive in that kind of climate with nothing but a hut and some animals - stunned me. And this made me realize, perhaps for the first time, how easy my life was compared to those of people in less privileged societies.
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One of my great personal triumphs is, because I stay vigilant about my health, I was never going to give my detractors the satisfaction of not feeling well, or allowing my health to falter while eating rich and indulgent food all over the world.
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I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.
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They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
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After having been confined to a television series - and it's a luxury job - where you can't play anything but one particular character for nine months out of the year, it will make you insane. It didn't affect me. I got out quick enough.
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What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?
