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Damian Lewis Quotes

I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.

Damian Lewis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: February 11, 1971

Topics

Weird American America Connection

The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.

Robert Krulwich

Think Trouble Way More Borders Wars

It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.

Ani DiFranco

People Me Reading Worry Find Just

I would have loved to invest in Salesforce when I was active in venture. I didn't know the founder, Marc Benioff, well enough, and he didn't really rely on venture capital, but I remember the first time I met him and got to talk about Salesforce when they were still private. I thought, 'Damn, that is going to be a huge company.'

Aneel Bhusri

Time Thought Loved Enough Remember

Most of the 9/11 hijackers weren't married, none of them had families inside the United States, and there's no evidence that any family members moved before, during, or after 9/11.

Michael Hayden

Family Inside Evidence United Most

It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

Michael Hirst

Character Not Perfect Better Perfect

I was a political science student.

Ruth B

Science Political Student

London, Ontario, sits halfway between Detroit and Buffalo, a description that applies as much to its soul as to its geographical coordinates.

Mary Pilon

Soul Detroit London Buffalo Halfway

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Mary Roach

Animal Think Kind Sleeping Minds Up

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

Chris Crutcher

History Book Reading Story Better

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

Augusten Burroughs

Day End My Own Write Everything Own

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

William Hazlitt

Better Nothing Write Able Read Than

You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.

Shemar Moore

Mother Man Me World Proud Black