Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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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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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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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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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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I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.
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In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.
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Silence brings us new namesnew feelings and new knowledge.Dreams dress us carefullyin the colors of power and faith.
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My greatest inspiration... is my mum, who had a baby at the age of 42 and is still so fit, independent and beautiful.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
