Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig -
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
Saad Hariri -
I like to discover new things.
Olivier Megaton -
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
Halima Aden -
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell -
I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
Tammy Duckworth -
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
Zoe Foster Blake -
I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
Wayne Brady -
I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
Sam J. Jones
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
A.J. Styles -
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine -
You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
Fiona Apple -
I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
Vin Diesel -
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
Sam Shepard
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Any slots at the senior level, including CEO or other slots, will be filled internally.
Kenneth Lay -
Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.
Van Jones -
I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He was like my closest older brother. There's just so much that we lived through together.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
Camilo Villegas -
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
Oscar Wilde