Oscar Wilde Quotes
I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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The fact that refugees traveled through six other countries, like former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, is because they like our social benefits. They like our welfare state. They know which country to pick. They're not going to stay in Hungary or in Estonia. They come to Germany, to Holland. And people sense that those are not the real refugees. And our government has spent billions of euros on them, and the Dutch people know.
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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.
