Oscar Wilde Quotes
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.
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Paint the essential character of things.
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How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.
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I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.
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I'm too old to know everything.
