Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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Oh, come off it,” said Ron, striding over to her and whipping her results out of her hand. “Yep— ten ‘Outstandings’ and one ‘Exceeds Expectations’ at Defense Against the Dark Arts.” He looked down at her, half-amused, half-exasperated. “You’re actually disappointed, aren’t you?
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
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I'm not that interested in people.
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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
