Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.
Quotes to Explore
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I guess I crave stability.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
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Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old.
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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.
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I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"
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It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.
