Oscar Wilde Quotes
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.
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My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.
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I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer. My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
