Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.
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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.
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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
