Oscar Wilde Quotes
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
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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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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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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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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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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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And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm's length whenever possible.
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I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
