Oscar Wilde Quotes
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Novels are longer than life.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
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And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
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I definitely am more observational of the people around me and how they interact and less introspective about myself.
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I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom.
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This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
