Owen Wilson Quotes
In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
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I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. (p. 132)
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The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.
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People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'
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In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.
