Oscar Wilde Quotes
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.Oscar Wilde
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
Adam Mansbach -
You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
Garry Marshall -
As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
Jack Markell -
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
Gabrielle Giffords -
I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
Iman -
If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
Quentin Blake
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
Hamish Bowles -
This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
Gary Zukav -
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
Orson Pratt -
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
Takeru Kobayashi -
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
Imelda Marcos -
L.A.'s always been good to me.
Raekwon
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You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.
Jacob deGrom -
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel Butler -
R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
R. Kelly -
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon Hill -
Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
Sam Altman -
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I moved to Paris at 16, I held a dinner party in my first apartment and served only red wine, French fries, and mashed potatoes. Unable to cook, I relied on people taking me out.
Jerry Hall -
What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.
H. L. Mencken -
A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
Adam Lambert -
How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves! Again - thou hearest? Eternal passion! Eternal pain!
Matthew Arnold -
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
Diane Ackerman -
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar Wilde