Clive Owen Quotes
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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I love hats. On tour, it's difficult to stop in at a barber. It's good to have a hat nearby.
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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.
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I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
