Oscar Isaac Quotes
I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
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I love improvising.
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What's a problem with India, in particular, is female feticide - aborting a female fetus. It is unacceptable and illegal, but it happens on a large scale. Then there's also the killing of baby girls. Female feticide is pretty much middle-class, Indian experts say. This is not happening among the poor; they just have to keep bearing children and hope they live. This casts into doubt the spurious argument that we just have to wait until everyone's middle class and then all of this will sort itself out. Better-off women will have fewer children - but at what cost?
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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans.
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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
