Oscar Wilde Quotes
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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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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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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I suppose in the back of my mind I was always one of those guys who had a disdain for money. It had a value if you wanted to buy something, but if you didn't want to buy something, you didn't need it.
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At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as it would encourage me to learn science, and besides, there really was no chance I would ever actually become an astronaut.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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Terrorism is the price of empire. If we do not wish to pay it, we must give up the empire.
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
