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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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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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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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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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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I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.
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For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.
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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.
