Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
Vikram Seth -
One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
Mac DeMarco -
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Jack London -
I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
Ian Mckellen -
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
J. M. Coetzee
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
Edmund Morgan -
My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.
Venus Williams -
One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
Nancy Pelosi
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. Mencken -
They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
Barbara Sukowa -
'People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.'
T. B. Joshua -
Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.
Andy Grammer -
I think anyone in a relationship has to deal with temptation if they're being honest with themselves. People don't talk about it very much, but it's very honest. Guys and girls both have temptation.
Andy Grammer -
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
James Branch Cabell
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Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.
Charlie Jane Anders -
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
Ang Lee -
Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter. From emboldening white supremacists to promoting violence against journalists, his tweets damage the country and put people in harm's way.
Valerie Plame -
Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.
Subcomandante Marcos -
I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
Mahershala Ali -
The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
Oscar Wilde