Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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At the end of Season 1 of 'Cheers', it was the lowest rated show in all of network television... So we turn to 'Bill Cosby'; when he came to Thursday night, he just exploded. And once the audience was there, we said, 'Hey, by the way, we also have this other great show. It's called 'Cheers'.'
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.
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I don't really know much about the fashion world. I have a few stylist friends that help me find stuff. So they know all about the vintage fashion world; I just kind of describe to them what I want and they find a lot of it for me.
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Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
