Oscar Wilde Quotes
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
Karen Robards -
Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
Kat Graham -
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Paracelsus -
I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
Padmasree Warrior -
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel Kant
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On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.
Yochai Benkler -
I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
Kate McKinnon -
I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.
Young Thug -
Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
Wayne Coyne -
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. Bradley -
You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
Ingrid Betancourt
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
Carlos Ghosn -
The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
Pat Oliphant -
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
Olympia Dukakis -
I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
Frances McDormand -
Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
Wendy Davis -
Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
Samira Wiley -
It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.
Bryce Dallas Howard -
I had a big fight in my first week in secondary school. There was a kid in the year above who was nasty to me, and we ended up having a scrap. I can remember thinking that there was going to be some serious bloodshed if we didn't stop, so I made a decision to walk away. It was a difficult thing to do, but the most sensible.
Jonathan Stroud -
Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado -
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Oscar Wilde