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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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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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series.
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A lot of people think I am cold and have no feelings. But I do. I just try very hard to focus and not let my emotions take over on the golf course.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'
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I hope fans will go back and listen to the Beatles and the Beach Boys or Led Zeppelin, or put on 'Tommy' and let them experience like I did that moment when 'Pinball Wizard' comes on.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
