Oscar Wilde Quotes
The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.
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Conrad Black is a picture of a man hugely enjoying himself.
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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour.
