Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
