Major Owens Quotes
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
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I'll always be tough on myself.
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Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
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As well a well-wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.
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In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative; I loved the writing. I loved the making of it. Because, I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one.
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It's weird doing red carpets; it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.
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I despise those prick actors who say, 'I was in character,' and 'I became the character,' and all that stuff. It's hideous. It's just masturbation at the highest level.
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Everyone has all the power of a bank branch in the palm of their hand. And so in that world of software at scale, theoretically the incremental unit cost of something at scale approaches zero.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
