Oscar Wilde Quotes
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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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 can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
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Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.
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I'm incredibly inspired by the goofy edginess of teenagers and young people.
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The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. 'You people with hearts,' he said, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much.'
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Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.