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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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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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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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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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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The more we emphasize teaching a merely Right-Hand map of systems theory or a Gaia Web of Life, instead of equally emphasizing the importance of interior development from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric, then the more we are contributing to Gaia's demise.
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It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.
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Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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I liberally apply sunscreen and wear hats.
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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
