Oscar Wilde Quotes
When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
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At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.
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I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
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The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
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It's not good to thicken sauce with too much butter because it can cause heaviness. You don't want to avoid butter, but you also don't want to put too much - add it slowly.
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We are now living in an age of literary exhaustion; we get used to the bleak landscape. Cyril Connolly said that the writer's business is to produce masterpieces; but what masterpieces have been produced in the past fifty years?
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I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.
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Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.
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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
