Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
Nancy Gibbs -
I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
Patina Miller -
For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
Dan Webster -
I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
Sam Smith -
Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
Sam Kean -
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
Sam Neill
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
Karin Slaughter -
War is the greatest failure of mankind.
Aaron Huey -
There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
Mahershala Ali -
I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
Sam Hunt -
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
For the first time I'm free to be myself.
Ed Balls
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I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.
Vincent Cassel -
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
J. J. Watt -
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
Zig Ziglar -
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
Kate Smith -
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Harriet Martineau
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I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
Taylor Lautner -
If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.
Jack Vance -
Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.
Rebecca Mader -
I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.
Yochai Benkler -
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde