Oscar Wilde Quotes
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
Maajid Nawaz
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Ram Dass
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Babasaheb
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
Lady Gaga
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
Umberto Eco
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
Aaron Tveit
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
Yann Martel
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
Pardis Sabeti
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
Nate Berkus
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
Haley Joel Osment
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
Patrick Wilson
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
Ike Barinholtz
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
Yishan Wong
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
Walt Handelsman
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
Katharine Anthony
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I don't have a complex mind.
Irving Harper
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
Natalie Dormer
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Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.
Astro Teller
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DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
Anne Carson
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
Oscar Wilde