Oscar Wilde Quotes

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Oscar Wilde

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• Optimist
• Pessimist
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• Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

  

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• The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.

  

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• I really am a cockeyed optimist.

  

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• If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

  

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• Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.

  

  Dan Phillips
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• I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.

  

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• We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

  

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• I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.

  

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• The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.

  

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• Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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  • Difference

• I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.

  

  Dak Prescott
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• The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

  

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• I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.

  

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• I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

  

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• For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

  

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• Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

  

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• Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you'll love them all. Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good.

  

  Esther Hicks
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  • Reason
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• Last year, a lot of times the first-team offense would be out in the third quarter, ... Now, we're playing all four quarters, and that's only going to help us down the road.

  

  Jason White Green Day
  • Playing
  • Offense
  • Quarter

• Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difference
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist