Oscar Wilde Quotes
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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I have a strong tennis arm.
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We all have a gift; we all have a passion - it's just about finding it and going into it. Being an asset to your family and community.
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A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.
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My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
