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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When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.
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No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.
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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.
