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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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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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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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.
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I didn't start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate's guitar and sit on the front porch and kind of blend this weird spoken word and these little melodies over simple chords; that really started my whole journey as a musician.
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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
