Oscar Wilde Quotes
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Quentin Crisp
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
Ottessa Moshfegh
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
Bebe Neuwirth
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The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
Gary Miller Bad Brains
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
Tavi Gevinson
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
P. J. O'Rourke
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
Mahershala Ali
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
Raekwon
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
Manny Pacquiao
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What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.
Orlando Bloom
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I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.
Mads Mikkelsen
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
Fat Joe
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
R. Lee Ermey
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As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.
Larry Drake
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I can be very ordinary looking.
Rachel Tucker
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Anybody that believes that Adrian Grenier's name is really Vince should probably watch less TV.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
Patrick Collison
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My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great time doing something, I'm going to keep on doing it.
Guy Fieri
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To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.
Catherine Hardwicke
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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
Oscar Wilde