Oscar Wilde Quotes
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
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That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.
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Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
