Oscar Wilde Quotes
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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Music is about the performance.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Anyone can do anything because everything is the result of someone.
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I'll go back and take what the people owe me.
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I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
