Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Truth is the best defense.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate.
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Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
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Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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My makeup hasn't really changed since the 1960s!
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
