Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I guess I'm bothered by how fans react to certain things and how they're interested in certain things over true talent. I've always appreciated talent over everything else.
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Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
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The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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True friends stab you in the front.
