Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.
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The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
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Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
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I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.
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I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, 'Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.' I went, 'Oh, for goodness sakes.'
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Fashion is a completely international business.
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I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.
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Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
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I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
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If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for 'deep truths' that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.
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The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.
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Americans mostly now believe the climate is changing. They believe that humans are causing it, and they believe that it is a risk. But in surveys, Americans are not willing to pay higher energy prices to tackle the problem.
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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
