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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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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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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Ex-members, even those with righteous complaints, tend to reconstruct their experiences — ambiguous situations at worst — into totally negative encounters. They tend to demonize the leaders and turn the members into zombielike followers. Harmless comments are recast into sinister threats, group jargon into conspirational fantasies.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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Maybe now people will give a man credit where credit is deserved. Roy Jones was beaten by a better fighter period. I'm one of the best in the world.
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Credit is a young man's capital.
