Oscar Wilde Quotes
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.
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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
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She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.
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We pursue exercise even though empirically we see no benefit from the energy we're spending and we're hurting. So empirically we should quit. The why is exactly the same thing. You persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty.
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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
