Oscar Wilde Quotes
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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Women just love to shop.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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My parents always have taught me 'you're good enough'. So, whenever I got bad comments from the judges, or I'd get on the Internet and read what bloggers have written about me, I would get so down, and I would get so sad. The biggest support group was obviously my parents, and I'd call them. And they'd build me up.
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I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
