Oscar Wilde Quotes
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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I want to be the jazz singer.
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I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality.
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I had a stormy graduate career, where every week we would have a shouting match. I kept doing deals where I would say, 'Okay, let me do neural nets for another six months, and I will prove to you they work.' At the end of the six months, I would say, 'Yeah, but I am almost there. Give me another six months.'
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My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.
