Oscar Wilde Quotes
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
M.I.A.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
Candace Bushnell
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
Rae Carson
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
Malvinder Mohan Singh
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
Vince McMahon
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
Mahmoud Abbas
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
Bat for Lashes
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
Gabrielle Union
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
Hanya Yanagihara
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
Maggie Stiefvater
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‘It’s impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.’
Christopher Paolini
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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
Maurice Sendak
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
Alain Badiou
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In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.
Oswald Chambers
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The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery; that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.
Flannery O'Connor
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
