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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I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream.
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I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.
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As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.
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It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.
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I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
