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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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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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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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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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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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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There are so many women throughout the world who appreciate beautiful design and have the budget to buy designer fashion but sometimes have a hard time finding the things that they really want or that suit their lifestyle or their culture or whatever it may be.
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I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.
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It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
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It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
