Oscar Wilde Quotes
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
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I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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God creates men, but they choose each other.
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I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.
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Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.
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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
