Oscar Wilde Quotes
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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I was 21. At the time, I was under the thumb of my label, and I felt like I had to do, say and act out everything they asked me to do. I was trying to please them and the public and finally I had to say, "Enough. I'm going to make a record that makes me happy and addresses all facets of being a woman. I don't care if I sell one or one million records." That's how I came to make Stripped.
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I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.
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There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values that are found in the Bible. And as we look at problems, maybe we're getting away from those values. And in my little small way, I want to encourage people to get back into those values.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
