Terry Pratchett Quotes

You know you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and head teachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.

Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.

I’ve never felt that his private life was the way to judge him. We should judge a president by the way he performs as president.

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

Ethics is not a job that anyone turns to naturally, but every public agency has to have it.

Our profession is the chastest of all; even the shadow of a fault tarnishes the luster of our finest achievements.

Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.

If you are planning on entering the field of law enforcement, be sure you understand that you WILL be held to a higher standard. This is not unjust, but a necessary fact. Those who are chosen to uphold the constitution and must do so with responsibility and that means they must live their lives as an example

I'm not an actress who's a fan of gratuity, so I don't seek projects that have nudity for nudity's sake. I don't know any actors who do, unless they're in 'Spartacus.'

As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize.

You don't criticize your employer.

Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.

For the record, in my long career, I've never knowingly exposed classified information in an inappropriate manner.

I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn't agree with, then I wouldn't do it. If it was good for the show, then I had no problem. If it was demeaning to the character and wasn't adding a positive light to the show, then I can guarantee that I wouldn't do it.

I never conduct business on the golf course.

I don't want to say names, but there are certain companies I won't work with because of previous people they've worked with. I don't want to be put in the same category as another athlete that I don't necessarily think is a good role model.

The most important thing to me as a practitioner has been fidelity to my obligations and to the law.

I will never stoop low to do certain things on camera.

A morality clause is a grey area that the powers that be say if it is immoral, than it's immoral, and you are getting fired.

I've never gone and spoken to an audience, you know, 'come and be my patient.' I've never taken an ad in a newspaper, 'come and be my patient.'

At no time I have used the resources of my office to facilitate a relationship of any type.

I wouldn't be doing my job, or holding myself to that standard that I see fit, if I just shut my mouth and played the game.

Why would I need to have sex on TV for my living? No Indian should do this; I can't do such things.

It turns out Enron workers were not only shredding documents at work, they were having sex at work. Having sex and shredding documents. Those are two things you don't want to get mixed up.

One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally.