Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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God hears a mother's prayer.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
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Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
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I don't like things set in stone.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
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I got on him a little bit because he got a bruise on the forearm and he wanted to sit out. That's the difference. You have to have durability in the Big Ten.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
