Oscar Isaac Quotes
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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I'm totally a geek.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side.
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
