Oscar Wilde Quotes
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Many are called but few get up.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.
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The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.
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The last thing he could withstand was a sustained correspondence.
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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
