Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 19, 1976

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I have swung on a flying trapeze, explored a glacier, and been hit in the face by a shark's tail while scuba diving. I like to throw myself fully into projects and adventures, which is probably how I managed to publish a book in the first place.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that just comes out on stage. If I see people react to me and my music, I just have to give back and express myself.

Shreya Ghoshal

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We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

Tommy Shaw

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Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

Ruth Porat

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I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.

Mary Barra

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What the Khmer Rouge had in store was a radical agrarian revolution, one with the professed aim of completely renovating society while giving the peasants a better life, of evening the rewards and feeding the hungry, of bringing a rational and utilitarian nation-state into being.

Michael Paterniti

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What you're seeing is tension that we've seen for years between President Erdogan and his military, his military being more secular, President Erdogan being a little more in the Islamist side of the house.

Michael McCaul

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I don't attend church because I am a Meryl Streepist and we, her disciples, have not organized a place of worship yet. We just watch 'Sophie's Choice' in our homes once a month and sing praise together in a collective cry of shock and awe and devotion.

Jasika Nicole

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Compared to what comics say today, I'm a monk, but in those days, it was unheard of to make fun of people like I did. Of course, they exaggerated how outrageous I really was.

Don Rickles

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Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.

Deborah Tannen

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What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.

Arthur Golden

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An imam should be able to say that homosexuals are worse than pigs. My only demand is that you mustn't incite violence.

Pim Fortuyn

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