Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
Naomi Campbell -
The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
Paloma Faith -
Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
Salma Hayek -
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
Laura Dern -
I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
Candice Olson -
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman -
The crown of literature is poetry.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
Wayne Dyer -
Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
Barry Manilow
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
Forest Whitaker -
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
Edmund Husserl -
Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
Washed Out -
Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
Jaan Tallinn -
So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
Barack Obama -
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
Ha-Joon Chang
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I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying 'We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything.' And I'm like, 'Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did.'
Chuck Palahniuk -
I lost my father very young, but not young enough to not be aware of what was going on. My father and I had an amazing relationship. We were very close.
Eiza Gonzalez -
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics.
Neri Oxman -
The two favorite episodes of 'Lost' that Adam and I wrote were 'Dave,' which was where Hurley has an imaginary friend, and 'Trisha Tanaka is Dead,' where Hurley finds a van and starts it.
Edward Kitsis -
I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.
Jayson Williams -
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde