Oscar Wilde Quotes

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde

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• The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

  

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• Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

  

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• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
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• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
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• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  

  Ira Glass
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• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

  

  Adam Draper
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• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• At the end of Season 1 of 'Cheers', it was the lowest rated show in all of network television... So we turn to 'Bill Cosby'; when he came to Thursday night, he just exploded. And once the audience was there, we said, 'Hey, by the way, we also have this other great show. It's called 'Cheers'.'

  

  Warren Littlefield
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• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.

  

  Victoria Abril
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• President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

  

  Samantha Power
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• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

  

  Karl Marx
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• There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

  

  Daniel Ek
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• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
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• In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

  

  W. G. Sebald
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• I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

  

  Ted Turner
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• Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
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• It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
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• Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

  

  Wim Wenders
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• In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from beginning to end in a month or a few months.

  

  Safra A. Catz
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  • Cloud

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Sincerity