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I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#along #been #between #comes #decade

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you. ↗

— Al Purdy

#always #certain #certain age #how #other

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd. ↗

— James Purefoy

#airport #grumpy #i #i can #important

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#government #individual #need #responsibility #rights

I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me. ↗

— Mike Quade

#any #approach #balls #business #concern

No matter what the situation, winning takes care of a lot of stuff. Things are never perfect, even when you win. But it does make for a lot better environment, for sure. ↗

— Mike Quade

#care #does #environment #even #lot

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#action #away #bold #favorite #fear

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#context #everything #historical #important #interest

The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#certain #could #countries #international #level

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#boy #did #else #hey #i