Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
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What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
