Gary Oldman Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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You can't bank on the outcome.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules.
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I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.
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This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
