Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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You have to follow that next step.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.
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My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.
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I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
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Il ne faut jamaisVendre la peau de l'ours qu'on ne l'ait mis par terre.
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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
