Clive Owen Quotes
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism – and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
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If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
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Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
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I need, absolutely, to be alone.
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I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.
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I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.
