Oscar Wilde Quotes
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.
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I've had friends whose boyfriends I meet, then they break up and I end up staying buddies with the boyfriend. In this day and age with social media and Facebook, Twitter, it's really impossible to escape people that you've been involved with. In a weird way, it makes it easier for everyone to stay friends because you're just sort of stuck there.
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We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.
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I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media like TV, opera, theatre, and even in video games! I relish when dark and compelling characters compete for our protagonist's heart. The doubts, the uncertainty - the jealousy! - can be breathtaking.
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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
