Oscar Wilde Quotes
Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
G. Willow Wilson
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
Kary Mullis
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
Gary Lineker
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
Laraine Day
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
Karen Salmansohn
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
Malin Akerman
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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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.
A. E. Housman
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
B. B. King
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
Ian McShane
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
Fletcher Knebel
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
Fionn Whitehead
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
Flavor Flav
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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
Nassau William Senior
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
Warren Bennis
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Samuel Johnson
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People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.
Alan Alda
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig
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I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.
Bradford Washburn
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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'.
Oscar Wilde