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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The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
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The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and I like that I can spend time in America.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
