Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character.
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.
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I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.
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I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
