Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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Trends don't interest me.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
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A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
