Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Walter Savage Landor -
My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
Iris Apfel -
I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
Nate Berkus -
The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
Larry Wilmore -
I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
Sally Mann -
In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
Hal David
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
Vidal Sassoon -
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
Walt Disney -
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
Randy Travis -
The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
Daniel Boulud -
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
L. Neil Smith -
Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
Nancy O'Dell -
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
Mac Davis -
I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
Octavia Spencer -
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Walter Lippmann -
No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
Gary Wright
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Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
Aaron Stanford -
Never take counsel of your fears.
S. C. Gwynne -
Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.
Jasper Fforde -
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde