Oscar Wilde Quotes
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.
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I had all the provocation in the world to kill... I had no malice or spleen against him... It was not designedly done, but in my passion, for which I am heartily sorry.
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For far too long, Congress has been focused on the CEOs, the millionaires, the billionaires.
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I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.
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A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.
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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
