Oscar Wilde Quotes
I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
Quotes to Explore
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Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.
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It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.
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An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis.
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So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.
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I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.
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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
