Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.
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Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.
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I am so pro-swine flu it's ridiculous. We need a plague. It's gotta happen. And don't worry, it's only gonna kill the weak. Seriously. Put on a sweater, take some vitamins, you're gonna be fine! We gotta let mother nature do her thing, man. She keeps trying to help us out and we won't let her do it.
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In a progressively privatised city, the defence of public space, the production of new public space, and saving what is public really for the public is very important.
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I've seen massive changes in Ireland in my lifetime.
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I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
