Oscar Wilde Quotes
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.
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We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.
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Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
