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 -
I like risky stuff.
Nadia Comaneci -
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 -
The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
Warren Spector -
Every idea has its time.
Vicente Fox -
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 -
I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
Paloma Faith -
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
Karl Kraus -
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 -
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
Jackie Robinson -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
Paloma Faith -
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 -
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
W. G. Sebald
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If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.
William A. Rusher -
Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
Maddie Ziegler -
God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
Oscar Wilde