Oscar Isaac Quotes
How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.
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I've got two cows licks; when I was a kid, all the boys in school used to have curtains, and my hair never used to do that, ever! I always used to try, and I always looked like the geek.
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The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.
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A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
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During crazy times, I just hold back. People are so quick to jump on something or rip it apart.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
