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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For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
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True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
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Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.
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If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
