Oscar Wilde Quotes
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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The great Emathian conqueror bid spareThe house of Pindarus, when temple and towerWent to the ground.
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The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
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I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
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There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
