Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well.
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When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.
