Oscar Wilde Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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You are going to get knocked down, but you don't lie there. You get up and face the challenge.
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Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that I was a part of making.
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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
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I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.
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Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
