Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
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I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
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You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
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I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
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One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.
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I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.
