Owen Wilson Quotes
There's what is on screen and then for us, it's if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at work.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
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I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
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I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."
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And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human powerWhich could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil longOf him who treasures up a wrong.
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I was too big to even contemplate exercise. I had to use a walking stick and a wheelchair to get around.
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Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.
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There's what is on screen and then for us, it's if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at work.
