Oscar Wilde Quotes
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.Oscar Wilde
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
Barbara Januszkiewicz -
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
Zoe Kazan -
My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
Imogen Heap -
A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
Rachel Cusk -
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
Ralph Fiennes -
If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
Jack Davenport
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
Gail Collins -
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
Fay Godwin -
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
Time was God's first creation.
Walter Lang -
I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
Palmer Luckey
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
Harrison Ford -
In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
Larry Hogan -
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Salman Rushdie -
The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
Barry Levinson -
I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
Pamela Anderson
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I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.
Phyllis A. Whitney -
A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates - that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized - I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey - I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all.
Arthur Miller -
We have got a - we've got a good federal work force, but we have too many people, and we're paying them too much money.
Jason Chaffetz -
Authorities should not simply [pretend] that nothing is happening.
Valentina Matviyenko -
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
Oscar Wilde