Oscar Wilde Quotes
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
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In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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Screaming is hard after a while.
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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
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Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.
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I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
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Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.
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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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Good scripts are hard to find.
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All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
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We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
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When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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'I don't really know what happened. I just fell out of the nest.' But the second Soren said those words he felt a weird queasiness. He almost knew. He just couldn't quite remember, but he almost knew how it had happened, and he felt a mixture of dread and shame creep through him. He felt something terrible deep in his gizzard.
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To me, a song like 'Demons' or the title 'Trouble Will Find Me' are acknowledgments that you can't really plan for life, and you can't plan for trouble.
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I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.
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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
