Oscar Wilde Quotes
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
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Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
