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Italy is an enormous asset in my life now. I feel it's just a privilege for me to have actually met someone who is from a country that is so fantastic. And so a lot of it is the exploration of that country, trying to learn its language, eating its...

Quote by Colin Firth about country, food, language, life

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

Quote by Colin Firth about age, olderness, people

But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was...

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about power, communism, union, numbers

We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and...

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about conspiracy, nation, conduct, impossible

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Quote by William Godwin about imagination, things

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

Quote by Peter Fonda about thinking, people

I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about theatre, youth

People think the stock market is a place of levelheadedness but it actually works in a totally emotional way: the President gets a pimple on his nose, and the thing plummets.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about stores, things, people

We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.

Quote by Jim Fowler about spring

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

Quote by Salma Hayek about mind, faith

It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

Quote by Paris Hilton

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about attitude

I was actually in my mid-30s when I got the Oscar. And yeah, it does kind of spoil you in terms of the kind of stuff you look for.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about contentment

Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can't be bothered.

Quote by Mick Jagger about writing, real estate, things, time, life

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

Quote by Billy Joel about affair, age, olderness

And it was a friend of mine, a relationship that I was having with someone in Atlanta who was the catalyst for me getting sober, who actually went into a treatment center first, which I was very angry about, because, hey, it was like telling me...

Quote by Elton John

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

Quote by Elton John about stubbornly, things

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

Quote by James Joyce about world

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Quote by James Joyce about poetry, common sense, sense

If a program actually fits in memory and has enough disk space, it is guaranteed to crash.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, univers, memory