Oscar Wilde Quotes
Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
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The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
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I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports.
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When you watch people when they're relaxed, that's when you learn the most about them. That's when you really learn about who they really are.
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I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.
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Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.
