Oscar Wilde Quotes
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
Quotes to Explore
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
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Unnamed director: The script is too caustic.Goldwyn: To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it.
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It's important to feel settled and balanced in life, and that has been tough for me to do.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
