Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.
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My military service is the thing I'm most proud of, but when I think of everything happening in the Middle East, I can't help but tell myself I wish we would have achieved some sort of lasting victory. No one touched that subject before Trump, especially not in the Republican Party.
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If we remove all judgment and preconceived ideas of who a person is, the truth is, we are all blessed with the same emotions and desires.
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The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!
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Most things I go through I have to write about.
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More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
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I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You see what people are wearing. You see what people are responding to. You see what the music is they're listening to. An exercise class is social anthropology: what clothes people are wearing, what are the new sneakers.
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It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right.
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I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.
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A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!
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The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
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No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose.
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There are no uncriminal crimes.
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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
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We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.
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In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter's defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.
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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
