Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.
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That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.
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It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.
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I think India's growth itself will give opportunities for Indian banks to become substantially bigger.
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The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
