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 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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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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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
