Oscar Wilde Quotes
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
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I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.
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Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.
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And we have a new era in boxing!
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Maybe you don’t get to choose how you make peace, or what kind of peace you make. You count yourself lucky if peace doesn’t run away from you.
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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
