Oscar Wilde Quotes

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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• The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

  

  Jack Reynor
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• If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

  

  Pat Boone
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  • Honor
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• The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.

  

  Vikram Rohit Shetty
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• I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

  

  Raekwon
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• My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.

  

  Laura Dern
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• There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

  Camille Pissarro
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• The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Movie
  • Reality
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• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
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  • Awards

• If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Sun

• Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Everyone
  • System

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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  • Death
  • Me

• My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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  • Me
  • Rest

• I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Being
  • Abortion
  • Con

• Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Happy
  • You
  • Be Happy

• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Will
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• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
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• For death begins with life's first breath, And life begins at touch of death.

  

  William Arthur Dunkerley
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• We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.

  

  Megan Fox
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  • Art
  • Beautiful

• To God all things are beautiful and good and just.

  

  Heraclitus
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • All Things

• The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Music
  • Live
  • Listening

• Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Morning
  • Sins