Owen Wilson Quotes
I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds like, okay, you're going to be in a lot of crazy situations that are unbelievable.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.
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In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
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I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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I was raised to believe that America was a force for good in the world and that it should take its leadership role seriously.
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In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.
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My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about.
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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
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Have you ever had a dream so realThat you felt the life you live was fake
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We saw a big bang in PCs; we saw a big bang in the Internet. I believe the next big bang is going to be even bigger. To be ready for that, we need to set the foundation, and that foundation is SoftBank Vision Fund.
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I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.
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I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too.
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I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.
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I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds like, okay, you're going to be in a lot of crazy situations that are unbelievable.
