Oscar Wilde Quotes
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
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The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.
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We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do.
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I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.
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Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
