Bonnie L. Oscarson Quotes
We must stop concentrating on our differences and focus on what we have in common. Then we can realize our full potential and achieve the greatest good in the world.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.
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I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
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I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.
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The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.
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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
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George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
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You keep learning all the time.
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We must stop concentrating on our differences and focus on what we have in common. Then we can realize our full potential and achieve the greatest good in the world.
