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 would much rather feel comfortable and feel beautiful, than to feel uncomfortable, but look fantastic.
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Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
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The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
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Your love is your love. It doesn't matter whether you're 18 or 68; there can still be someone that makes you feel that way.
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Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do anything, anybody not able to do what they can do. The daily lessons of exclusion, having hand-me-down books in schools, of seeing ambulances turn away and not give health care for people lying in the streets who are migrant workers. Everything I do today stems from that segregated existence.
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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.
