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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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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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block chain as their long-term data storage solution. And they don't need to use the peer-to-peer network as their communication mechanism. They should use the block chain as the world's most secure distributed ledger.
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I'm a bed monster.
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Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.
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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
