Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.
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I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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What are lawyers really? To me a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there's a problem, the lawyer is the only person that has actually read the inside of the top of the box.
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I used to not watch what I ate. I would just kind of eat whatever.
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I am a long-time hide-behind-the-sofa-in-the-early-Doctor Who-in-the-1960s fan.
