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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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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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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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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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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So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
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One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails.
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I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
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I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration.
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We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.
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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.
