Oscar Hijuelos Quotes
I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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I get bored easily.
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I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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When I campaign with seniors, it's always, 'Are you a Democrat or Republican?' But when I campaign on college campuses, they ask me where I stand on specific issues. I think Millennials are much less interested in conventional labels. One thing that's universal among Millennials is a distinct frustration with Washington, D.C.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
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How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so weird! We still call people black and white?
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How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
