Owen Wilson Quotes
I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again".
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
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Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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A wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.
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I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again".
