Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
Paloma Faith
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
Nancy Gibbs
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
Baron d'Holbach
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna
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It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.
Octavia Spencer
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
Pat Buchanan
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A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.
Patrick M. Byrne
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
R. D. Laing
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
Harmony Korine
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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
Aaron Ciechanover
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.
D'Angelo
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
G. Willow Wilson
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I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
Illeana Douglas
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
Dan Malloy
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If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
H. G. Wells
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When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.
Lisa Ling
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I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.
Park Geun-hye
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Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light. Primary light is that which falls on objects and causes light and shade. And derived lights are those portions of a body which are illuminated by the primary light. A primary shadow is that side of a body on which the light cannot fall.
Leonardo da Vinci
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We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.
Sarah Palin
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde