Oscar Wilde Quotes
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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If I spend 10 days at home, I'll be dying to get back to the set. I love the thrill of a good dialogue, the buzz of shooting.
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I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
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I'm a very independent woman.
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It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
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When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.
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The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.
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Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?
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I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
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For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.
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What could I have possibly learned except the really most important thing, which is that I did not want to work at the 'New York Times'? Beyond that, I learned how a newspaper works.
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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
