Oscar Wilde Quotes
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
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Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months.
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I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.
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I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
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We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.
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It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
