Oscar Wilde Quotes
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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I never really had a strong accent.
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There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
