Oscar Wilde Quotes
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing.
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Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.
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Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.
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To me, nature always appears more unbalanced than Gary Busey with a clogged Eustachian tube.
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Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
