Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I like to be against the odds.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I don't have many friends.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.
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I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
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Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
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Credit is a young man's capital.
