Oscar Wilde Quotes
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
