Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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Our mistakes, blunders, flaws, and shortcomings notwithstanding, the world America made after 1945 and 1989 has enjoyed the longest period of general peace in the west since Roman times, and decades of prosperity.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
