Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
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I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.
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'Help us to find God.' 'No one can help you there.' 'Why not?' 'For the same reason that no one can help the fish to find the ocean.'
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For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.
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I'm actually recording my second album now.... so I've just been recording and co-writing. The single should be coming out soon, but I feel it's pretty much 80 percent done. And, yeah, I'm excited about it. It's a lot more rock and edgier..
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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.
