Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
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A death is never good. It's never pleasant. We can only ignore it, until our time comes.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.
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The very best way in all the world to overcome self-consciousn ess and shyness is to get interested in other people and to think of them and, almost miraculously, your timidity will pass. Do something for other people. Practice deeds of kindness, acts of friendliness, and you'll be surprised to see what happens.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
