Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
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I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
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We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
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My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.
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Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.
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Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
