Oscar Wilde Quotes
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
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I'm just very fortunate that I'm alive. I look every day and see my hand and say, 'Thank you, Lord.'
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The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
