Oscar Wilde Quotes
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded – like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.
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What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.
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If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.
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I know when California Dreaming was first released, we heard it on KFWB or KHJ or something, and it was so exciting to hear the record come on the radio.
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The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.
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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
