Oscars Quotes - Page 16

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

  Alexander Woollcott

  Personality, Miracle, Absolutely Nothing

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

  Daniela Pestova

  Fitness, Running, Exercise

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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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• 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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• 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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• My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.

  A. R. Rahman

  Dream, People, World

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• Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.

  Emilie Schindler

  War, Hero, Destiny

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• In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was affable, kind, extremely generous and charitable, but at the same time, not mature at all. He constantly lied and deceived me, and later returned feeling sorry, like a boy caught in mischief, asking to be forgiven one more time - and then we would start all over again.

  Emilie Schindler

  Sorry, Heart, Boys

  "Where Light and Shadow Meet : A Memoir". Book by Erika Rosenberg, 1997.

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• The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Awards, People

  "Joan Rivers: the best of her career in clips and quotes" by Lilah Raptopoulos, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2014.

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• You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Weekend, Dublin, Hell

  Daniel Day-Lewis' Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 26, 1990.

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• Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, People, Lovely

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• And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

  Michael Caine

  Ideas, Gone, Asking

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• I have also heard that GM Oscar Panno said that -whenever you have to make a rook move and both rooks are available for said move- you should evaluate which rook to move and, once you have made up your mind... MOVE THE OTHER ONE!!!

  Oscar Panno

  Moving, Mind, Chess

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• There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

  Ennio Morricone

  Winning, Two, Years

  "Mozart of film music". Interview With Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Years, Issues, Nominations

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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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• 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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