Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
Dan Aykroyd -
The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
Edmund Morgan -
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
Fernand Braudel -
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King -
We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
Ted Deutch -
Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
Mandy Patinkin
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
Karl Shapiro -
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
Dan Stevens -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
Ian Rush -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
Kate Christensen -
A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
Yvonne Strahovski -
When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
Ingrid Betancourt -
It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.
Xavier Rudd -
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
J. P. Donleavy -
I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.
Katee Sackhoff
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There is so much more fashion coverage online, so women today are really seeing the collections. They're a lot savvier and more aware of the discrepancies between what they see on the runway and what they end up seeing in their local shops.
Lauren Santo Domingo -
A lot of young people don't have a lot of faith in politicians. You can't depend on what they say. They talk in circles. They don't speak the kind of language that has truth to them. I'm speaking differently.
Maxine Waters -
The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.
Kenneth Scott Latourette -
Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that will support the prosperity & union of the colonies. On the other we have struggled for liberty & made costly sacrifices at her shrine and there are still many among us who revere her name to much to relinquish (beyond a certain medium) the rights of man for the dignity of government.
Mercy Otis Warren -
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Oscar Wilde