Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
