Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.
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Environmental problems, unemployment - all these issues cannot be resolved alone. They require at least European, possibly even broader, solutions.
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Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.
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A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.
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The past cannot be cured.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
