Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
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Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.
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I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best.
James Tate -
Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
