Oscar Wilde Quotes
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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Long before folks fretted the demise of 'quantitative easing,' I fretted its existence. It proved the reverse of its image, an antistimulus, and we've done okay not because of it, but despite it.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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Whatever I like, even after a long time, I still like it. And I reminisce about the moment when I first heard it. That's what I love. Just remembering those moments.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.
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Punctuality is the thief of time.
