Oscar Wilde Quotes
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
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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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.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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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both national treasures.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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On average, an underserved consumer spends 10% of their disposable income on unnecessary fees and interest rates.
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I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
