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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In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
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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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I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'
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'Do you know that you have caused us more trouble than all the rest of our European allies?' 'I do not doubt it. France is a great power.'
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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
