Oscar Wilde Quotes
I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.
Quotes to Explore
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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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!
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I have a very small public.
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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.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.
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Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.
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I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true ideological public.
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The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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If I can put on my album in a car or on my headphones and listen to the whole thing and love it, that's what I'm going to be happy putting out there.
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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.
