Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

Lines are very difficult to learn.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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• Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Love
  • Service

• I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.

  

  Rae Carson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Reading

• When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Smart
  • Intelligence
  • Dolphin

• God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • God
  • Faith

• I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Worry
  • Idea
  • Often

• A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • History
  • Today
  • Nation

• People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movie
  • Industry
  • Ups And Downs

• If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

  

  Larry Elder
  • America
  • Man
  • Dad

• Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Find

• Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Fall
  • Big
  • Nobody

• I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Music
  • Know
  • Artist

• The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Stronger

• People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

  

  Gary Wolf
  • People
  • Saying
  • Oil

• Some you win some you lose.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • You
  • Win
  • Lose

• The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Great
  • Different
  • Always

• A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Practice

• I'd better go into the house, and die and be a riddance!

  

  David Copperfield
  • House
  • Die

• This whole world is one great City, and one is the substance whereof it is fashioned: a certain period indeed there needs must be, while these give place to those; some must perish for others to succeed; some move and some abide: yet all is full of friends-first God, then Men, whom Nature hath bound by ties of kindred each to each. (123).

  

  Epictetus
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• Since the moment I joined with Nightwish, I have been working non-stop.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Moment
  • Working
  • Joined

• When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Choose

• Lines are very difficult to learn.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch