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“I definitely felt frightened [on Skyfall], but never in danger, because they were always so careful about everything. Some of the driving, particularly on that road around the sheer-drop cliff was actually done by stunt driver Ben Collin, who is otherwise known as The Stig from the TV show Pop Gear. He's a brilliant drive, nonetheless, it was terrifying to be careening along when a wrong turn would mean a thousand-foot drop and you're not in control and you want to slow the car down.”

Want Mean Done Shows Turns Felt Known Feet Car Danger Tvs Thousand Careful Pops Brilliant Driving Drivers Frightened Sheer Tv Shows Cliffs Gears Wrong Turn Skyfall Stig

Author:Naomie Harris

“I believe that the Israelis and the Palestinians, by and large, want peace, they each want their own country, and they want to get along, and they are going to get along. I know it sounds unbelievable, but I know enough about this, having been there, that these are sophisticated people. It's not like in Pakistan, where people have been told about Jews for a thousand years but don't know any. The Palestinians know the Jews.”

People Knows Want Years Believe Has Beens Country Enough I Believe Sound Thousand Jew Palestinian Sophisticated Thousand Years Unbelievable Pakistan

Author:Russ Feingold

“I could only shoot when the subway was on the other platform. Little things like that, and the platform is very narrow. It's not like you can hide if a subway comes so a lot of things happened because of that. Or a thousand people just came and looked straight into the lens like they didn't expect a movie to be shooting.”

People Ifs Littles Happened Like You Thousand Things Happen Shooting Little Things Platforms Lenses Subway

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

“Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.”

Years Humans Lines Human Beings Records Written Changed Revolution Couple Thousand Computer Draws Hundred Speed Decades Thousand Years Scientific Revolution

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“We need to have nature back in our atmosphere. There might be a turning point of going backward - within a few thousand years we are going back to the Stone Age! There are many scenarios [with] the robot technologies: Humans no longer need to walk; machines can produce products and food and everything. You might not be able to recognize what's false and what is real.”

Needs Years Humans Real Might Age Able Walks Technology Produce Products Thousand Stones Machines Atmosphere Thousand Years Robots Scenarios Turning Points Stone Age

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964

“We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”

Home Boys Ought Thousand Miles Vietnam Asian Vietnam War Miles Away Away From Home Thousand Miles

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesn't have an understanding of what Enlightenment is.”

People Culture Understanding Couple Thousand Enlightenment Western Insane Convince Japan Enlightened Western Culture

Author:Brad Warner

“Well there were other Maharajis, so Neem Karoli Baba was his technical name, like there are a thousand Lamas called Rinpoche.”

Wells Names Thousand Baba Lama

Author:Surya Das

“We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment. Iran hangs people and leaves their bodies hanging on cranes. Iran put to death more than a thousand people last year. I don't see EU reporting on it.”

People Years Body Happens Lasts America Thousand Punishment Iran Last Year Capital Punishment Legal System Hanging On Cranes

Author:Adel al-Jubeir

“I understand that these people are all there to see me ride, that that's why they're in the building, and whether I have ten people, or a thousand people come out to see me, they still came out to see me, and I take that to heart.”

People Heart Stills Building Thousand Ten

Author:Mike Vallely

“Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.”

Amount Periods Thousand Vacation Anticipation Researchers Dutch

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.”

Book Helping Faces Spiritual Hero Thousand Help Me Heroic Exploring

Author:Viola Davis

“I would for sure do a thousand dollar meet and greet because literally every single person knows where I live.”

Knows Persons Thousand Dollars Single Person

Author:Vince Staples

“I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel but I know what the ending will be already.”

Knows Two Book Next Novel Written Thousand

Author:Jonathan Trigell

“A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.”

Years Stills Reality Culture Left Consciousness Havens Thousand Years Ago Scientist Stakes Burned Thousand Years Fringe

Author:David O. Russell

“Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.”

Giving Sometimes Three Audience Thousand Hundred Programming Entitlement

Author:George Meyer

“There are people that borrow $36,000 to go to Trump University, and they are suing him now. Thirty-six thousand dollars to go a university, that's a fake school.”

People School Trump Thousand Six Dollars University Fake Thirty Suing

Author:Marco Rubio

“Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of the silent-era. What we were able to do together is to show all these major influences but make it into our own comedy. We've seen the stereotypical boy-meets-girl story a hundred thousand times…”

Stories Shows Able Together Girl Boys Growing Up Comedy Growing Influence Thousand Majors Hundred Silent Eras Comedian Charlie Brooks Comedic Chaplin Boy Meets Girl

Author:J. Robert Spencer

“Flint is a city of a hundred thousand that was having a rough go of it even before its water was poisoned by lead. And when the water crisis finally grabbed national headlines this winter, the Democratic presidential candidates noticed. Hillary Clinton sent senior staff to investigate and asked her supporters to donate to a fund for Flint's kids. Bernie Sanders called on Michigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, to resign.”

“I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.”

People Writing Book Five Thousand Paraguay

Author:John Gimlette

“I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.”

People Talking Millions Four Thousand Hundred Britain Sixty Publishers

Author:John Gimlette

“I'd take about 40 thousand CDs, and then take about three full vans of people to hit every hood, every mall, and every club. Just hit one city to the next.”

People Three Next Cities Thousand Clubs Vans Cds Hood Malls

Author:Gorilla Zoe

“I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?”

Littles Moving Walks Thousand Six Hundred Window Towns Little Towns Suvs

Author:Kelly Reichardt

“'m constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"”

“When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster.”

World Car Thousand Hundred Reactions Faster Visuals Spectrum Sensory Gps Ultraviolet Infrared

Author:Peter Diamandis

“The brutality of the pace. This was my third presidential campaign and it was a thousand times faster paced than my first one in 2004. The news cycle is constant and there has been an explosion in the number of news outlets covering them. As as result we're witnessing news and entertainment melding together to create what I'd describe as the "American Idolization" of campaigns and politics.”

Firsts Has Beens Together Results Numbers Thousand News Thirds Constant Entertainment Campaigns Faster Presidential Cycles Pace Outlets Explosions Covering Brutality Presidential Campaign

Author:Kevin Madden

“There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.”

Littles Energy Bits Ability Creativity Periods Thousand Little Bit Sitting Folds Renaissance

Author:Juan Enriquez

“The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five or seven passengers. High speed monoplanes will carry even less. . . . Over cities, the aerial sentry or policeman will be found. A thousand aeroplanes flying to the opera must be kept in line and each allowed to alight upon the roof of the auditorium, in its proper turn.”

Turns Found Lines Cities Five Thousand Capable Seven Speed Flying Aviation Opera Roof Predictions Unlimited Policemen Passengers Aeroplanes High Speed Auditoriums Magnification

Author:Waldemar Kaempffert

“A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life. The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon: the mind must be full of light.”

Way Life Needs Mind Light Spirituality Water Sea Taste Thousand Moon Reflection Rivers Seven Gardening Worldly Worldly Life Drop Of Water

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive, and then just smile for a while about them.”

Want Trying Reason Might Dies Names Alive Thousand Ten Chaos Forgotten Lists Endless Reason Why Wanting To Die Just Smile

Author:Paul Baribeau

“A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.”

May Moments Joy Turns Causes Too Much Pieces Produce Gratitude Thousand Gold Lifetime Favors Taoism Enmity Much Love Aloofness

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Polish what you polish until it is like gold that has been refined a hundred times; anything that is done in a hurry is not deeply developed. Do what you do like a thousand-pound catapult; one who pops off too easily does not accomplish much.”

Doe Has Beens Done Thousand Hundred Gold Pops Accomplish Taoism Pounds Polish Refined Catapults

Author:Zicheng Hong

“When I look in the mirror, I see about a thousand different Jadas.”

Looks Different Thousand Mirrors

Author:Jada Pinkett Smith

“One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.”

Firsts States Opportunity My Own United United States Missing Tvs Goes On Thousand Beats Hundred Raises Dollars Democratic Bridges Senate

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.”

Knows Firsts Heart Done Study Students Thousand Ten Doctors Males Medical Agendas Nancy Heart Attack Protocol Aspirin Women's Health

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“On the top of the head is a Chakra - Sahasradala or the thousand-petalled lotus. There is a Chakra in the middle of the forehead between the eyebrows and one in the heart-centre. The region between the navel and head constitutes the mental field. From navel downward extending till the terminus of the spinal chord, mūlādhāra, is the seat of the vital.”

Heart Middle Fields Thousand Seats Regions Centre Chords Eyebrows Foreheads Extending Chakra Lotuses Navel

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Movie theaters barely make any money. A movie can make a couple of thousand dollars, or could get lucky and make ten or fifteen thousand dollars, but theatrical releases don't really sustain the work. For me, it's the best sort of advertisement for anything else you'd want to do.”

Want Couple Thousand Lucky Ten Theater Dollars Release Fifteen Theatrical Advertisements Movie Theater

Author:Robert Greene

“Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.”

Years Two Ends Christian Thousand Claims Jew Thousand Years End Times

Author:Tom Robbins

“What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an esoteric frog lecture on their first date? If that isn't synchronicity, it's something equally as weird.”

Ifs Firsts Two Guy Girl Fiction Thousand Stranger Miles Odds Lectures Frogs Synchronicity Esoteric Thousand Miles First Date Miles Apart

Author:Tom Robbins

“On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.”

People Home Five Stage Loneliness Thousand Lonely Twenties Making Love Fake People Twenty Five

Author:Janis Joplin

“When I talk to a few thousand people, I just feel I am talking to an old friend. Like that. I never felt some kind of distance, so therefore, I feel one source of happiness. In that kind of atmosphere, my experience seems some benefit to some people.”

People Feels Kind Seems Felt Talking Source Thousand Benefits Distance Atmosphere Old Friends Source Of Happiness

Author:Dalai Lama

“I have more than thirty thousand hours of family and relationship counseling experience under my belt. Over the years, I have seen changes in relationship trends walk through my therapy office doors. My richest gifts are translating the complexities of love and desire in modern relationships into something simple and accessible. I can offer informed advice that makes people feel comfortable, knowledgeable, and confident.”

People Feels Years I Can Desire Hours Simple Walks Doors Modern Advice Offers Thousand Office Comfortable Therapy Thirty Complexity Trends Translate Belts Knowledgeable Counseling

Author:Esther Perel

“In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.”

World Sea Streets Thousand Ten Neighbor Miles Islands Rising Miles Away Thousand Miles

Author:Achim Steiner

“The greatest disaster of all was after all the difficulties and loss of life and expenditures, President [Barak] Obama walked away, in 2011, and it is a disaster. And now we've got half of Iraq under the ISIS control and terrorists, and Iran has moved in because we weren't there, and they've taken more influence. Just a few thousand troops, in my opinion, would have avoided that.”

President Loss Half Opinion Taken Influence Thousand Difficulty Moved Iraq Disaster Terrorist Iran Troops Avoided Isis Expenditures Barak Obama

Author:Jeff Sessions

“When we took over the economy, we were losing 800 thousand jobs a month under the [George W.] Bush administration.”

Jobs Economy Months Thousand Losing Administration

Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz

“I want to say that even - and Bernie said this many, many times - in several of the actual public debates, she said on her worst day, Hillary Clinton's a thousand times better than Donald Trump. And Donald Trump, in my view, is a threat to the nation.”

Want Said Nations Views Worst Trump Thousand Threat Clinton Debate Worst Day

Author:Jonathan Tasini

“If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Two Together Audience Pieces Thousand Garden Tonight Forty Squares Twelve Orchestra Ensemble Madison Duets Madison Square Garden

Author:John Densmore

“Even if I'm doing a show and there's five people in the audience and the sound system is terrible - I mean, it's been a while but I've certainly done those kind of shows where it's just every conceivable thing is against you - you still have music. It's still something that's real whether there's five people in the audience or a hundred thousand people in the audience. And that's always been there for me.”

People Ifs Kind Mean Stills Real Done Shows Sound Audience Five Terrible Thousand Hundred Sound Systems

Author:Joan Osborne

“Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express.”

Cutting Materials Thousand Pages Including Naked Lunch Trilogies Novas

Author:William S. Burroughs

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