Anthony Hopkins Quotes
My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
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The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'
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No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.
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There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.
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My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
