Bill Owens Quotes
I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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I don't like possessions.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
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One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.
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A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.
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International specialization and division of labor requires institutions and organizations to safeguard property rights across international boundaries so that capital markets as well as other kinds of exchange can take place with credible commitment on the part of the players.
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I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.
