Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.
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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
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Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine.
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My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
