Oscar Wilde Quotes
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
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We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
