Oscar Wilde Quotes
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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People love to be told what they know already.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.
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I like when people don't know what to expect.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.
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I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
