Oscar Wilde Quotes
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.
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You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.
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Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
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I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?
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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
