Oscar Wilde Quotes
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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Love can never be fully explained.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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In reading, one should notice and fondle details.
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From a political perspective, it is important to uphold certain universal principles so that, for example, you can condemn both Islamist forms of violence and injustice as well as forms of violence and injustice from other groups - some superpowers, for example, or the English Defence League, as other examples.
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It's so hard to get started creatively - it's really hard to get those first ideas out. You just have to do it over and over again, and hopefully better ones start to come. Also, anytime a good idea comes up, for a long time I think, "Oh, my God, that was so lucky that I thought of that idea, whew, I hope that happens again." The more you work at it, the more it happens, but it still feels lucky.
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Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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Circumstances should never alter principles!