Very Strong Quotes - Page 3

• I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

  Ron Chernow

  Strong, Angry, Relative

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• The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

  Richard Branson

  Strong, Wall, Wind

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• Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Letting Go, Strong, Sleep

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• I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard one. I'm not saying it is as hard as working in a coal mine, but it is still difficult in a different way. Sometimes you have to go through very strong emotional journeys and then come back to yourself. And that can be difficult to control.

  Javier Bardem

  Strong, Jobs, Journey

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• Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

  Antonio Banderas

  Strong, Hollywood, Female

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• The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others. Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.

  Bernard Lewis

  Strong, Mistake, Mean

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• I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.

  Barack Obama

  Christian Values, Mind Blowing, Islam

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. 2008.

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• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  Patricia Heaton

  Strong, Thinking, Ensemble

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• I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

  Hugh Hefner

  Strong, Thinking, Media

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• I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Strong, Ideas, Opinion

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• The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till I have tried it," as if an outside force were driving him. He enjoyed experimenting much more than work which only entailed reasoning, and when he was engaged on one of his books which required argument and the marshalling of facts, he felt experimental work to be a rest or holiday.

  Francis Darwin

  Strong, Book, Holiday

  Sir Francis Darwin, Charles Darwin (1925). “The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter”

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• I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.

  Robert Redford

  Strong, Kids, Air

  “Robert Redford: What I've Learned” by Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2014.

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• I haven’t always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can’t emerge from a franchise and do well, that’s a very strong driving force.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Harry Potter Grows Up: An Interview With Daniel Radcliffe". Interview with Christina Patterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

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• I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now.' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong.

  Michael Palin

  Strong, Adventure, Years

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• Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Strong, Feelings

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• When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Strong, Writing, Masters

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• Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

  Ismail Merchant

  Strong, Roots, Language

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• Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

  James McAvoy

  Strong, Stories, Fundamentals

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• I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

  Ang Lee

  Art, Strong, Book

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

  Norman Lear

  Strong, Careers, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

  Diane Lane

  Strong, Father, People

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• I really love over-the-knee boots. I think they're super sexy and they're fun. And they're also very strong and empowering.

  Miranda Kerr

  Sexy, Strong, Fun

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• My children are my children. There's no doubt about that at all. They're very strong towards me, very protective, and I towards them. It works both ways.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Strong, Children, Doubt

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• I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.

  Tony Judt

  Strong, Writing, Views

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• My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Strong, Writing, Twists

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