Cillian Murphy Quotes
The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.
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'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
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Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.
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A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
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I leave abortion to the woman. I just fundamentally end there. I absolutely support a woman's right to choose.
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I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it.
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That's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.
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A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.
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It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
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Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.
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The tongue, the Chinese say,is like a sharp knife:it killswithout drawing blood.
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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
