Rare Thing Quotes

I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.

Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one's own.

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

Every year, you can depend on having at least a couple really exciting Nicole Kidman performances, and that's a rare thing.

Isn't it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest.

I love 'Overboard!' That's such a great movie, and it's one of the first movies where it co-stars a man and a woman, and they are both equally funny. That's a very rare thing.

Schlesinger was that rare thing, a historian and a maker of history.

Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.

I think true atheism is a rare thing in human affairs: Even in the most secularized precincts of Europe, a lot of nominal nonbelievers turn out to have all sorts of supernatural and metaphysical beliefs.

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?

At some point, you're just happy to be a working actor, but to be able to do it with people you really love and enjoy spending time with, it's just such a rare thing. You hear so many horror stories.

Honest communication is a rare thing.

It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.

I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.

It's no rare thing for the Israeli prime minister to enrage the Jews of the diaspora.

My parents taught me that having a passion is a rare thing, so following it through and working hard, even when it's tough, is important.

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

I'm grateful that on a lot of casts I've gained friends for life. But it's more of a rare thing than a normal thing. I have a small group of friends, and I just, uh, feel fulfilled by the people that are in my life.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Continuity is a wonderful thing, and it is a very rare thing in show business.

If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing.

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.