Oscar Wilde Quotes
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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Here I was, sitting with the boys of the first team in cognitive psychology, personality psychology, developmental psychology at Stanford and Harvard, and in the midst of this I felt here were men and women who, themselves were not highly evolved beings. Their own lives were not fulfilled.
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Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.
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We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.
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I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.
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The greatest threat to the war on terrorism isn't the Islamic insurgency - our military can handle the savages. It's traitorous liberals trying to lose the war at home.
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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
