"I'm still very sensitive and wary of people recognising me The only thing that really annoys me is people trying to surreptitiously take a photo on their phone without asking. I feel it's cowardly and a bit pathetic. Just ask me if you really want me to have a photograph with you."

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Source : Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#Phones Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast”

Source : Paul Scott Mowrer (1945). “The House of Europe”
“I think people make their own faces, as they grow.”

Source : Enid Blyton (2015). “Naughtiest Girl Collection 1 (books 1-3)”, p.129, Hachette UK
“Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.”
“The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.”

Source : Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage
“Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.”

Source : Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”
“The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give me its natural productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in history:-not accidentally, but necessarily; not at any particular epoch, but in all; in short, -what idea he is called to represent.”

Source : Victor Cousin (1832). “Introduction to the History of Philosophy”, p.240
“In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.”

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