Oscar Wilde Quotes
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
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I don't need security detail; I don't need anything special. I just walk around, and I can do that, and that's a real luxury when you're in my industry.
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If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn't waste their lives because I didn't have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.
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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me.
