Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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 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.
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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.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
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Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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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.
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My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.
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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.
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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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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.
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Bolivar cannot carry double.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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'People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.'
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We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.
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I'd see people in the middle of winter sleeping under a blanket in the snow, ... I'd be looking at them from my window and I would think, 'What's going through that person's mind?'
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Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.
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Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
