Oscar Wilde Quotes

To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.

Oscar Wilde

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• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
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• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
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• I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
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• I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.

  

  Bar Refaeli
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• I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

  

  Om Puri
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• At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

  

  K. A. Applegate
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• I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.

  

  Jack Levine
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• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
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• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
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• The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

  

  U Thant
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• I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
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• I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
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• If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

  

  Barry Goldwater
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• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• Music is such a part of my soul.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
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  • Romantic

• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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  • Time
  • Want

• My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Age

• A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Soul

• Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

  

  Alex Prager
  • Musical
  • Composer
  • Background

• The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Want
  • Needs
  • Stills

• To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • Free