Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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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.
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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.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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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.
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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.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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.
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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.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.
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There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are terrified. As a result, they have started sending their families to Britain. After some time, they will realise that they cannot exercise authority over India.
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I kind of work on an airplane. The Burger King brand headquarters is in Miami. The Tim's headquarters and our head office is in Toronto. And we have international offices for the brands in Switzerland and Singapore, so I kind of bop back and forth around all the offices. And I try to spend most of my time visiting our restaurant owners.
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I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.
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I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
