Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
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Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
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I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.
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In 2016, one of the things I really hope to do is discover new talent and help develop it. Take what I've learned and what I can do and help amplify those voices.
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That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
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You sure got a quick trigger, Sienna," he teased.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
