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 don't have chips on my shoulders, I have bricks.
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Now that I'm married and have two beautiful children, it really makes me appreciate... being alone.
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I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.
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There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
