Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
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I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did.
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Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.
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Pardon the plug, but what I like most about Toronto is Metro Morning's audience. I think it's got to be the most multi-faceted, multi-lingual, omni-curious collection of plugged-in people I've ever encountered.
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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
