Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. 'I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on... ' And I've got blinds in my flat!
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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I always want off-the-beaten-path, Anthony Bourdain-inspired travel.
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Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
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I want to use whatever resources in the world we can use, unite whatever force we can unite, ally with whichever partner we can find.
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Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.
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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. 'I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on... ' And I've got blinds in my flat!
