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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It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is an ode to Chicago, a song for the complicated love I have for my city.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents. It's not a humanitarian thing, because I don't see it as a sacrifice. It's a gift. We're all lucky to have each other.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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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.'
