Oscar Wilde Quotes
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
W. H. Auden -
If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
Yoko Ono -
People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
Aarti Sequeira -
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
Laura Bell Bundy
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
Gary Oldman -
If people hate me they hate me.
Uwe Boll -
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E. Joseph Cossman -
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
Natasha Richardson
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My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.
Foxy Brown -
I love listening to pop radio.
Washed Out -
Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
Vicente del Bosque -
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
Fidel Castro -
There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
Mads Mikkelsen -
The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
Paris Hilton
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Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.
Imelda May -
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
Paddy Ashdown -
Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
Cab Calloway -
My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.
Edna O'Brien -
The positions are probably at this point so enormous. Most people are up to their limit.
Jeff Cohen -
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
Oscar Wilde