Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why you can't be the only girl for me.
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A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.
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I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.
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I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university.