Oscar Wilde Quotes
If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
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Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
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'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.
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There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.
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Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.
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Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.
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You don't deserve this, Brian." I wanted to shove that phrase into his heart. But I knew he'd always believe that he did deserve what he got.
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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.
