Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me - I'm a European citizen.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
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I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
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When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
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It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
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Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
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My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.
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I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.
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Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.
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I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.
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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.
