Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
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It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
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No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.
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One challenge is to agree on minimum criteria of good governance that are not perceived as a threat to cultural traditions and to draw on moral concepts that are indigenous to specific cultural settings. fix cite
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John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.
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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
