Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.
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It is always the under side of the branches of any plant that show themselves to the wind which strikes it, and one leans against the other.
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I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.
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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
