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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They were always good about taking care of other people.
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Men make more money but have lower net worths.
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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
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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.
