Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.
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'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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All of us grow.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
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Calling something "new age" is one of the media's biggest canons. If you're called "new age," you couldn't possibly be serious, you couldn't possibly have anything deep to say, and you probably hang out in California too much - and we know that no one in California reads books or has any serious thoughts!
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Nature is always behind the age.
