Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
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I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
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When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre
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Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
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The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.
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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
