Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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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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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.
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My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
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All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.
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They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
