Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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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'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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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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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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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.
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I'm smart enough to know, 'Don't try and make any headlines.'
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I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.
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Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
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I can remember just learning to walk and trying to dance like Elvis and sing like Elvis, so I was very, very passionate about music at a very young age.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
