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 don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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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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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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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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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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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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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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Rules for Definitions. I. Not to undertake to define any of the things so well known of themselves that the clearer terms cannot be had to explain them. II. Not to leave any terms that are at all obscure or ambiguous without definition. III. Not to employ in the definition of terms any words but such as are perfectly known or already explained.
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Historically, when a previous US administration enters into an agreement, it carries forward into the future administration.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
