Oscar Wilde Quotes
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Quotes to Explore
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor in the things of God . Puritan Richard Baxter said, "When men prosper in the world, their minds are lifted up with their estates, and they can hardly believe that they are so ill, while they feel themselves so well."
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My mom decided that she wanted to put the mirror ball trophy on the coffee table in the center of our living room. When people walk in, it's kind of like, 'Uh.' It's a little weird. Maybe we should put it in the corner or something.
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If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.
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If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.
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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
