Oscar Wilde Quotes
The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.
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New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.
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Our freedoms are shared freedoms: they are bound up in each other. The ability to confront oppression in the guise of religion is linked to our ability to worship as we choose: both are acts of expression.
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Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.
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Inequality in the developed world fell for most of the 20th century; we can make it fall for most of the 21st century, too. But it won't happen without sustained pressure on politicians from electorates.
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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.
