Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
Hamish Bowles
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I like risky stuff.
Nadia Comaneci
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
Warren Spector
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Every idea has its time.
Vicente Fox
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
Paloma Faith
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
Karl Kraus
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
Usher
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
Hannah Gadsby
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
Jackie Robinson
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
Mackenzie Astin
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.
Dan Farmer
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It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
Paloma Faith
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
Salman Rushdie
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Liars are always most disposed to swear.
Vittorio Alfieri
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I could see he didn’t understand that knowing a person is about more than knowing whom they fantasize about. That’s the small stuff, actually. Not the big stuff. The big stuff is lying next to a guy on the floor and locking eyes and having deep conversations about philosophy. The big stuff is letting a friend know your hopes and your fears and not having to make a joke about it. That’s what matters
Bill Konigsberg
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
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I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'
Steven Heighton
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I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I'm not going to humiliate myself. I'd rather drive a cab.
Steve Schirripa
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An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
Oscar Wilde