Oscar Wilde Quotes
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
Quotes to Explore
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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I think I can change the game.
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
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I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
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I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
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My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.
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Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.
Mark Spitz -
I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.
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For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
