Oscar Wilde Quotes

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

Oscar Wilde

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• A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg Bowl in the second half against Ole Miss. I'll never forget the feeling when I walked back out on the field. As I walked into the Egg Bowl, the crowd stood up and clapped like they were enveloping me in a giant hug.

  

  Dak Prescott
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• I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

  

  Ice T
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• I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?

  

  Gary Frank
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• I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
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• I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.

  

  Barbara Kopple
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• The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

  

  Vanessa Williams
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• Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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  • Language

• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
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• I think music docs could turn off some people.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
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• Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

  

  Adam Osborne
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  • Up
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• It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• I get really nervous when people are like, 'I saw you in a trailer! I saw you on TV!' Genuinely, my cheeks get red.

  

  Zoey Deutch
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  • You
  • Red

• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
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  • Children
  • True

• Once you see the impact that you have on people, either at a meet and greet or after a show, you think, 'Oh man, they need to feel better today.'

  

  Andy Grammer
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• Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.

  

  Laini Taylor
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  • Fire

• Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Women
  • Attraction
  • Sexuality

• The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • Important

• There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Great
  • Feeling