Oscar Isaac Quotes
I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I knew that I had to write my memoirs.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.
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I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.
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Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
