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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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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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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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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The key to happiness is achievable dreams.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
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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.
