Oscar Wilde Quotes
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.
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Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.
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I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.
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My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.
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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
