Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times.
