Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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I am an ordinary person.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
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I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.
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I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?
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Light works most effectively in darkness.
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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!
