Clive Owen Quotes
Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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I hate the domestic life.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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For favorite games, I have sentimental feelings toward the Nintendo 64. I don't know why, but that period just resonates with me - 'Goldeneye' and 'Ocarina of Time' and 'Rogue Squadron.'
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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When you're a man, you want to make decisions for your family, and sometimes the lady doesn't see what you see.
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It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'
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You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.
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For women, detailed conversation is our lifeblood, while for men it's just not as critical.
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Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game is effectively over.
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Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
