Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.
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I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
