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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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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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 live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village in the south of France was very different than the fantasy I had of living in France. Over the years I spent there, that fantasy was worn away and I found a more realistic version of France than the one I began with. I wouldn't say the spell ever goes away, but transforms. Now that I understand French culture more intimately, and speak fluent French, I have a different, more solid, relationship to the country.
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Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.
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Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.
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I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
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The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.
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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!
