Oscar Wilde Quotes
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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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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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
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There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
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But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.
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Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
