Gary Oldman Quotes
There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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My personal style changes wherever I am. When I'm in Ibiza, I'm a bit girlier because there's an opportunity to be more romantic and dress up for the beach scene. Whereas in New York, I tend to go for suiting and tailoring that almost feels like weaponry for the city - but I think I'm quite playful no matter what.
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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
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I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
