Oscar Wilde Quotes
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
Quotes to Explore
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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You're not sick you're just in love.
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My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
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When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
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I'm sick of running away from things.
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It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.
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When there's nothing left, there's always music, that's all I've ever known.
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It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.
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Growing up, I watched my single mother work hard to provide for her three kids. She raised us in a one-bathroom house on a public-school teacher's salary of $22,000 a year.
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For me, fashion is exciting, and it should be exciting whether you get it wrong or right.
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I knew what he was saying, and I wished to God he was someone else, someone who didn't have to say things out loud.
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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
