Oscar Wilde Quotes
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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I want Barack Obama for president. I love Obama. I call Palin the helicopter huntress from hell! I want my children to have a wonderful future, and it's disturbing when I look around. Americans aren't very well-liked. A likable president would be a great start.
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To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.
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The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.
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I never say no.
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One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it.
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Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.
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My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me.
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By calling GMOs 'poison' and 'evil,' Bill Maher poisons the well of reasoned scientific discussion with ideologically driven fear mongering.
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A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.
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I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
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Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing.
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Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves.
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The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.
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Never say 'I could have done that,' because you didn't.
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My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
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All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.
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Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
