Oscar Wilde Quotes
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
Randy Neugebauer -
The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
Salman Rushdie -
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
Barbara Goldsmith -
Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
Cameron Boyce -
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
Adam Gopnik
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
Kate Bush -
I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
Zoe McLellan -
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
Salman Rushdie -
The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
Jack O'Brien -
One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
Ed Belfour -
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
Jackie Chan
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
Pat Robertson -
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
Olivia Colman -
Music is about the performance.
Vanessa Mae -
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
Rachel Kushner -
You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
Paddy Considine -
I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
Vanessa Marcil
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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
Maya Angelou -
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
Sam Houston -
To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.
Molly Ivins -
Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
Oscar Wilde