Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
J. C. Chandor -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
Jackie Kennedy -
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Zadie Smith -
I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
Bebe Neuwirth
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
Naomi Wolf -
I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
Oscar Hijuelos -
As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
Nancy Grace -
I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
Dan Jenkins -
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
Gail Collins -
People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
Dan Stevens -
However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
Ibrahim Rugova -
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney -
I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.
Ted Olson -
I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
Carey Mulligan
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Karl Kraus -
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Jean Genet -
I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown.
Peter Morgan -
I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
I can throw all the good passes I want, but if they don't make shots, it's not an assist.
Draymond Green -
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
Oscar Wilde