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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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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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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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.
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Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.
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The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
