Oscar Wilde Quotes
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I was born free.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
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I don't think I'm a funny person in general. I have had to learn comedy.
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The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.
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I was 11 years old when the Beatles broke up. I was a Lennon fanatic - I mean, I loved Paul too, but Lennon was the guy - and there was always this dream of the Beatles getting back together; there was always this hope.
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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
