Oscar Wilde Quotes
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.
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In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.
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The gardens I love best are those that are still affectionately tended by the people who own them and who made them – who planned and planted and replanned and replanted them, who dug in the dirt and moved hoses and watched the gardens change with the cycle of the seasons and over the passage of years.
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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
