Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.
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Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.
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I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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Washington Week, August 18, 2006
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
