Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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No, I never ever considered myself attractive.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.
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Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.
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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
