Clive Owen Quotes
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.
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In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
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I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
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There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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I liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling.... La nuit américaine is adorable, and another film I like to see is L'enfant sauvage, with its fine humanism.
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It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.
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I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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The spectator is a dying animal.
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However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.
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I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.
