Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I'm very self-critical.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Being evil is easy.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
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The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
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We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.
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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
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The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.
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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
