Oscar Wilde Quotes
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
C. Z. Guest -
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill -
I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
Park Geun-hye -
There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
Rahul Dravid -
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
Barry Commoner -
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
Barry Diller
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The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
Ted Cruz -
I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
Dakota Goyo -
No man was ever great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson -
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
F. Sionil Jose -
If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
Walter Map -
I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
Carlos Pena, Jr.
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
Pankaj Mishra -
Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
Nancy A. Collins -
The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
Bai Ling -
I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
Oscar Wilde
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
Karen Elson -
Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.
Pat Robertson -
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
John Stuart Mill -
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde