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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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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'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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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something.
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Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct. It depends what "eventually" means. But the idea that were going to be around for the rest of global history...I don't think there's any scientist who would suggest that is true. It could be millions of years from now. We may leave descendants that are humanlike.
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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.
