Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
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My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.
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I drink to separate my body from my soul.