Oscar Wilde Quotes
I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.
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I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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My main focus is to help people through music.
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The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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I'll fight anyone; I don't hide from anyone. I don't try to get easy fights. I don't sit down and wait. I want to be busy, and I will fight anyone put in front of me.
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Even in the midst of all this commotion she knows none of it really belongs to her, and marvels at the strange fact of her dearest wish: to be part of it, to give in to it's distractions, to find herself the owner of a life lived rather than a life endured. And then she looks into the face of Mother #3, worn smooth and almost featureless, with moist eyes that can't seem to settle on anything for more than a heartbeat at a time, and she knows this is a very dangerous wish.
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Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.
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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.
