Kevin Whately Quotes
I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d' knew my name and showed me straight to a table even though we hadn't booked. I get stopped for autographs by people from Sweden on the tops of mountains.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.
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The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.
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We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.
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Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d' knew my name and showed me straight to a table even though we hadn't booked. I get stopped for autographs by people from Sweden on the tops of mountains.
