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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He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
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My mom. Growing up with her, she always taught us to say whatever. Like, 'You think something, say it. Don't bite your tongue for people.' I think there's a fine line with that, but at the same time, I'm a firm believer in speaking your mind.
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'Hang on a second-you already have my old laptop. Why do you want my new drives so badly?''Because my contract says I have to write a book, and it's much easier just to steal your life than to make something up.'
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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
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Everybody comes to the planet with certain gifts. It may be writing, it may be acting, it may be singing, it may be being a lawyer, it may be making a beautiful cabinet, it may be being a spectacular dry cleaner. It could be anything. We all have gifts in different areas.
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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.'
