Oscar Wilde Quotes
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
Samantha Bond
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
Maajid Nawaz
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
Yakov Smirnoff
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
Nathan Myhrvold
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
Walter Kirn
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I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
T. Boone Pickens
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
Aaron Neville
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
Nancy Sinatra
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
Galileo Galilei
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
Patrick deWitt
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
Randeep Hooda
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis
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I've been things and seen places.
Mae West
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
Paloma Elsesser
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
Tahar Rahim
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all... I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
Anthony Trollope
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I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in... I'm not sure why I have the work habits of a 20-year-old coder, but no matter how many times I set up a more reasonable schedule, I always fall back to this.
Jenny Offill
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I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.
Patrick Kane
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My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.
Phillip Lim
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde