Clive Owen Quotes
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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The media cause more problems than they do good.
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The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.
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Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.
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Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.
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Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.
