Oscar Wilde Quotes
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in the past. Scientists on the same road may be expected to arrive at the same destination, often not far apart.
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and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
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There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.
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If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
