Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
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Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.
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The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
