Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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I've always considered myself a character actor.
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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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When I'm on family road trips, there is always Ranchera playing.
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Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.
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Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
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I think the sector is cranking along and there's a couple of stocks that will do well out of that disaster (the destruction in New Orleans).
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There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
