Oscar Wilde Quotes
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
Venus Williams -
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
T. E. Lawrence -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
Octavia Spencer -
I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
Ike Barinholtz -
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. Lawrence -
I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
Frances McDormand -
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
Imelda Marcos -
My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
Adam Lambert -
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
W. H. Auden -
Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
Waylon Jennings
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
Taylor Dayne -
If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
Vincent Cassel -
A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.
Banks -
I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
Yuna -
I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.
Gary Ackerman -
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot
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Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.
Carly Fiorina -
A positive pressure produces an attractive gravitational field... Positive pressures are just sort of normal pressures and attractive gravity is normal gravity, so normal pressures produce normal gravity, but it is possible to have negative pressures, and negative pressures produce repulsive gravity, and that's the secret of what makes inflation possible.
Alan Guth -
There's only so much I can do to effect change - and really, the thing that I can do that's most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.
John Cho -
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
Oscar Wilde