Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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I work with people who come up with an idea and people throw money at it. They say, "Geeze, can I give you some money? Can I get a piece of that?" So, if your concept is good everything else becomes much easier. If your concept is unclear, then everything else is harder
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It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.
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I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.
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Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
