Oscar Wilde Quotes
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.
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I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.
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I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.
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If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.
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I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.
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All great ideas are dangerous.
