Oscar Wilde Quotes
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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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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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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I hate competition.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
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I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
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Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
