Christian Bale Quotes
I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
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This is my favourite thing about being raised in Africa: we don't do labels very well; we don't do this, 'Oh, you're a Democrat; oh, you're a Republican.' Because we live in the real world.
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When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
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The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
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I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.
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Automobiles are like people: the cheap ones are noisy.
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It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness and chivalry 'masculine' when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them, to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as 'feminine'.
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I believe that in America, if you can dream it, you should be able to build it.
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(singing) Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!/
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There is one thing I can say about working in a steel mill. If it does not kill you, it will make a man out of you.
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The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'
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The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.
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If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.
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I had a show at George Krevsky Gallery this past spring. That show traveled to Woodstock, New York where it showed for six weeks.
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I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.
