Oscar Wilde Quotes
My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
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At the end of the day, the one commonality that both Hindi cinema and Hollywood share is that they are full of talented and inspirational people. Outside of this, there are many differences, from the scheduling and rehearsal to promotion and directing techniques.
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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
