Oscar Wilde Quotes
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
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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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My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'
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You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.
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Ah is the shortest of human cries, Oh the longest. Man is born in an Ah and dies in an Oh, for birth is immediate and death is like an airplane taking off.
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Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!
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Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.
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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.
