Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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The fact that nobody asks you to sing is not an indication that you should sing louder. This sounds obvious until it's applied to matters like mass transportation. There are virtually no private mass transit companies. This does not represent the failure of the market to provide a needed service, it represents the failure of an unneeded service to go away!
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Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.
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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
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Meeting with the director is an audition.
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I want a campfire box.
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A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.
