Oscar Wilde Quotes
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
Quotes to Explore
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.
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Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.
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The heath was victorious, keeping off on all sides. The common people were charmed, During time proceeding of the men. The oak, quickly moving, Before him, tremble heaven and earth. A valiant door-keeper against an enemy, his name is considered. The blue-bells combined, And caused a consternation. In rejecting, were rejected, Others, that were perforated
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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
