Colin Salmon Quotes

I believe I can do it, but one of the reasons I don't really get into the debate is people keep talking about a black James Bond: how a black man should play him.

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• Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Experience
  • Issue
  • U.S.

• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Enjoy
  • Situation
  • Kid

• Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Human Nature

• Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Men
  • Shows
  • Rural

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Girl
  • Waiting

• I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • America
  • Architecture

• My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • She
  • Me
  • Mom

• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Hope
  • Team
  • Fire

• Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Violence
  • End
  • Goals

• One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Depth
  • Timing
  • Bath

• And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Now

• My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Professional
  • Nothing

• Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Want
  • Football
  • Cricket

• One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Know
  • Relationship

• Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz

• How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Knowledge

• I think I made this decision that I just loved making music, and it didn't matter what level I got to do it on, and 'Fight Song' was this declaration that I'm going to keep going, and I'm going to keep believing in myself, even if it seems like it's impossible.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Song
  • Myself

• Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • Knowledge
  • Picture

• The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Job
  • Growth
  • Plant

• I believe I can do it, but one of the reasons I don't really get into the debate is people keep talking about a black James Bond: how a black man should play him.

  

  Colin Salmon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Black