Gary Oldman Quotes
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
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Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.
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You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.
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Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or even my girlfriends who are also my family, I put them first no matter what. And it makes it easy to then juggle everything else because it's never a question.
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I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.