Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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When you discuss your steel industry with China you are credible because you are part of the E.U., not because you are just U.K. You will be completely killed otherwise. You will never be in the situation to negotiate face to face with the Chinese because your domestic market is not relevant for the Chinese in comparison with their domestic market.
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As Athenodorus was taking his leave of Cæsar, 'Remember,' said he, 'Cæsar, whenever you are angry, to say or do nothing before you have repeated the four-and-twenty letters to yourself.'
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Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
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No man has more than a handful of close friends. He may find some of them early in life, some later.
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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
