Jeff Giles Quotes
Owen Wilson is an actor, but think of him as a sort of secret agent. He has an offbeat, indie-movie sensibility. Every so often, however, he infiltrates some big-budget movie he clearly doesn't belong in - 'Anaconda,' 'Armageddon,' 'The Haunting' - and struggles valiantly to stop it from sucking.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react.
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I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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I'm very relieved it didn't go into the mouth of the Mississippi, ... That would have been catastrophic.
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Owen Wilson is an actor, but think of him as a sort of secret agent. He has an offbeat, indie-movie sensibility. Every so often, however, he infiltrates some big-budget movie he clearly doesn't belong in - 'Anaconda,' 'Armageddon,' 'The Haunting' - and struggles valiantly to stop it from sucking.
