Clive Owen Quotes

I come from a very working-class background.

Clive Owen

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• My responsibility is to follow the law.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Law
  • Responsibility
  • Follow

• The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.

  

  Watt Key
  • Faith
  • Voice
  • Fool

• I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Law

• I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• 'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Home
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• I trust bitcoin more than I trust my bank.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Trust
  • Bank
  • Bitcoin

• A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Free
  • Survive
  • Questioning

• Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Find
  • Trouble

• If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Men
  • Want
  • Train

• I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Good
  • Want
  • Tuesday

• Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Freedom
  • Perfect
  • Health

• I'm constantly feeding my metabolism. But at the same time if I want to go one night and have a nice dinner then I won't sweat it the next day.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Time
  • Night
  • Nice

• All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food. All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Real
  • May

• All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

  

  Edmund White

• No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.

  

  Mandy Patinkin

• History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Time
  • History
  • Soul

• When the baptism of the penguins was known in Paradise, it caused neither joy nor sorrow, but an extreme surprise. The Lord himself was embarrassed. He gathered an assembly of clerics and doctors, and asked them whether they regarded the baptism as valid.

  

  Anatole France
  • Joy
  • Paradise
  • Baptism

• The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Today
  • Sex

• Make the financial industry pay for its mistakes. That's the idea behind the best of the Obama administration's reform proposals: If banks issue securities backed by mortgages, say, then require them to hold some of that paper so that they will bear some of the losses.

  

  David Ignatius
  • Financial

• I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Laughing

• My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Hand
  • Functions
  • Remote

• I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Think
  • Fight
  • Stand

• We just like to make great songs and have fun, and if people want to nominate us for a Grammy and celebrate it, then we'll take it.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Fun
  • Celebrate
  • Grammy

• I come from a very working-class background.

  

  Clive Owen