Nick Harkaway Quotes

The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would - quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints - challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us.

Nick Harkaway

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ChallengeAngerGovernmentLawRude

The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world as 'Tom Jones,' 'cause I'm Welsh as well, so the connotation is just ridiculous.

Tom Weston-Jones

WorldNameActingGoRidiculousOut

If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.

Rollo May

FreedomDestinyAchieveMustDaring

I'm very lucky to go back to my old club, my old home, my old house. To start my new chapter in this second part of my life in the Premier League is going to be something happy. I have very good memories from those four years in Manchester.

Javier Hernandez

LifeGoodHomeMemoriesHappyStart

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

FunnyChangePeopleTreatEasyYou

When Iron Man's flying, we'd send real planes up to do the choreography so that we'd get the camerawork to really look like a cameraman was following from another plane. It gives it that 'Top Gun' look.

Jon Favreau

ManFlyingGunLookTopReal

Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think, 'My goodness, if I let the lid off, where would we be?'

Claire Messud

WomenAngerPeopleThinkGoodness

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

Antonin Scalia

BusinessLawyerMysteryIronyOut

When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.

Ashley Wagner

StepMeMindsetFeelIceNervous

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Alfred Hitchcock

I AmProvidePublicBeneficialAm

Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it's beautiful and you were made like that for a reason. It's tough being a girl. I think we need all of the support we can get.

Shay Mitchell

GirlBeautifulMyselfSupportThink

We just want to have great people working for us.

Sergey Brin

GreatPeopleWantGreat PeopleUs

I love a good miso soup: it's fermented. It really helps with the immune system. I'll add tofu, carrots and seaweed.

Tia Mowry

LoveGoodSoupSystemAddCarrots

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