Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.
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I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.
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And a thimble's worth of milky moonCan touch hearts larger than a thimble.
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For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
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Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
