Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
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I don't mind dating younger men now.
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When I was growing up, we went to Musikfest every year, and I have vivid memories of the corn on the cob. I'm going for the concert, but I'm really going for the corn.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.
