Oscar Wilde Quotes
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
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I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents. We've got to send messages to our kids about what is important.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
