Oscar Wilde Quotes
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.Oscar Wilde
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
Ornella Muti -
A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
Warren Farrell -
At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
Tammy Duckworth -
The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
Ze Frank -
Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
Madhuri Dixit -
A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
Viggo Mortensen
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
Taron Egerton -
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel Butler -
I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
Dakota Fanning -
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
Walter F. Mondale -
President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
Daniel Ellsberg -
For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
Randi Weingarten
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
Ted Deutch -
If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
Idi Amin -
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
Nathan Deal -
My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
Mara Wilson -
Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.
Abu Bakr -
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
A. N. Wilson
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My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.
Diana Ross -
The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.
Angela Davis -
America's security and prosperity didn't work unless other nations were also secure, and prosperous. There had to be something in it for them, so we weren't looking simply to grab territory, or widen our sphere of influence, or anything like that. We wanted to make the world a better place, and get very rich in the process.
Daniel Fried -
The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.
Steve Case -
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
Oscar Wilde