Oscars Quotes - Page 8

• It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Winning, Dying, Hollywood

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• I never won an Oscar...and the Oscars never won Irene Papas.

  Irene Papas

  Papa

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

  Roger Ebert

  Winning, Years, Firsts

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• I feel very honored and special really. You can't imagine, to arrive at the Oscars when you arrive so low, and you can't go further than the Oscars.

  Berenice Bejo

  Special, Imagine, Lows

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• I can't wait to ride my electric scooter, walk my dog, watch TV, be bored … and I'm gonna put [my Oscar] in my hand and kiss it every night before I go to sleep.

  Quvenzhane Wallis

  Dog, Sleep, Kissing

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• I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.

  Phoebe Tonkin

  Drama, Serious, Watches

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• Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.

  Harold Bloom

  Art, Reading, Sublime

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.

  Ice Cube

  Inspirational, Basketball, Stars

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• There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Personality, Miracle, Absolutely Nothing

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• 'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.'

  Russell Crowe

  Regret, Men, Film

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• But here's the thing about being honest: All the liars HATE you for it, and most of the people in the world are liars. They lie to their bosses, they lie to their families, they lie to themselves, they lie so much they don't even know they're lying anymore. If you have the courage to be honest even a little bit all those people will hate you for it, because their lie is reflected in your honesty. Oscar Wilde wasn't kidding when he said, "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

  Tucker Max

  Honesty, Lying, Hate

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• A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  School, Mean, Simple

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.40, Regent College Publishing

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• When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

  Barney Kessel

  Music, Sports, Car

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• Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose sight of what makes an athlete great. It's too easy to credit Pistorius' success to technology. Through birth or circumstance, some are given certain gifts, but it's what one does with those gifts, the hours devoted to training, the desire to be the best, that is at the true heart of a champion.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Heart, Athlete, Technology

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• For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.

  Daniela Pestova

  Fitness, Running, Exercise

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• A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.

  Emma Goldman

  Anarchy, Foolish, Wilde

  Emma Goldman (1969). “Anarchism: And Other Essays”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

  Max Beerbohm

  Next, Doe, Chance

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• There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.

  Brander Matthews

  Character, Play, Dazzle

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• It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Dream, Country, Unique

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• It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

  Justin Theroux

  Winning, Wife, Car

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar

  Dean Cavanagh

  Winning, Mind, Cosmos

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• I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Home, Pakistan, Proud

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• My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Reading, Surfing, Three

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• The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

  Marco Tempest

  War, Romance, Deception

  "The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• Over half a century on and they're still complaining about it. Compare it to the fact that Garden State didn't win an Oscar and they seem a little petty if you ask me. I guess that just goes to show what kind of people they really are.

  Zach Braff

  Winning, Garden, People

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