Clive Owen Quotes
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day with my daughter.
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It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.
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I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.
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The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.
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A platform is the base from which something big happens. In our case, we're an entertainment platform in the sense that there are people signing up like MTV, Burberry, folks like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. And why? Because it's their channel to control their entertainment to their fans.
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What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.
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It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.
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When there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.
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I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.
