Gary Oldman Quotes

There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

Gary Oldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 21, 1958

Topics

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The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

John Dalberg-Acton

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We value feeling over knowing, because you can't prove something that hasn't been done before.

Angela Ahrendts

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Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

Amelia Earhart

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If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that's what they're supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that's commensurate with that.

Stephen J. Dubner

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When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.

Don Kardong

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Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.

Donald Trump

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I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

Christina Romer

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I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places.

Conor Oberst

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Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

Brian McKnight

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Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed.

Annette Bening

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The last thing I wanted to do was act, because it was the path of least resistance.

Wyatt Russell

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I once went to a 'Star Trek' convention by mistake - I thought I was going to a 'Doctor Who' one.

Sylvester McCoy

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