Oscar Wilde Quotes
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
Oscar Wilde
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
Iain Glen
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
Karen Armstrong
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
Ira Glass
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
Oprah Winfrey
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
Karen O
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
Adam Michnik
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
Ian Caldwell
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I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
Kate Bush
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
Sam Ewing
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
Wale
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Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.
Edmund Hillary
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In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
Om Puri
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If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.
Confucius
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Obviously, I'm still building a name and reputation for myself. The stigmas that come with my past will remain there for quite some time, but I'm not afraid to challenge those things, and I never have been.
Marina Ann Hantzis
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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.
Fionnula Flanagan
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
Oscar Wilde