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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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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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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I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.
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People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.
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I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.
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Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.
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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.
