Oscar Wilde Quotes
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
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We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
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In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
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I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.
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No actor in the world started off at the top.
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Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world's protein, it is not an exaggeration to say that when our oceans' health declines, our very survival is at risk.
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It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.
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He felt that both parts of his life were continually ‘spying on each other’, and developed the ability to step into and out of either world.
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Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
