Oscar Wilde Quotes
To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.
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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
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You're too young to let the world break you.
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All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.
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In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
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To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
