Wisdom Quotes
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I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
Quote by -Idris Elba
In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.
Quote by -Idris Elba
Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.
Quote by -Idris Elba
My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.
Quote by -Idris Elba
When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.
Quote by -Idris Elba
[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of escapism.
Quote by -Idris Elba
I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US. It took three years to get the accent right.
Quote by -Idris Elba
I did a rendition of Billie Jean which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.
Quote by -Idris Elba
What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
Quote by -Idris Elba
If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.
Quote by -Idris Elba
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
Quote by -Bertrand Russell
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
Quote by -Bertrand Russell
I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.
Quote by -Anthony Hopkins
We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.
Quote by -Anthony Hopkins
I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.
Quote by -Jude Law
Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.
Quote by -Hugh Laurie
With vampires, there is such a great tradition that you suddenly find yourself a part of. Each generation reinvents what that means to them.
Quote by -Michael Sheen
Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate?
Quote by -Stephen Fry
"Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference"
Quote by -Robert Frost
"`Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.' / `I should have called it / Something you somehow haven't to deserve.'"
Quote by -Robert Frost
"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?"
Quote by -Robert Frost
"We dance around the ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows"
Quote by -Robert Frost
"Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once."
Quote by -Norman Vincent Peale
"Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray."
Quote by -Matthew Arnold
"But the majestic river floated on, / Out of the mist and hum of that low land, / Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, / Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian waste, / Under the solitary moon."
Quote by -Matthew Arnold
"But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will."
Quote by -Matthew Arnold
"And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night"
Quote by -Matthew Arnold
"And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!"
Quote by -Matthew Arnold