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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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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If we lived in a time where people couldn't watch 'Lost' on Hulu or record it on their DVR, we wouldn't necessarily have succeeded. We need people to be able to catch up. Now you choose when you watch TV. We wouldn't have survived in the old days because people would have missed episodes.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.
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We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
