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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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
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I have the bug again. I'm expecting the response to seeing the show again on Nick to be very good, and this will set the groundwork for what I want to do.
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I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them.
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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.'
