Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
Irving Babbitt
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
Rajiv Ouseph
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
Mahershala Ali
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
Larry King
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
Candice Bergen
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Edith Sitwell
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
Wendy Davis
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I want 'Scars to Your Beautiful' to reach different types of women. The girl I am talking about, it's me, it's you - it's every girl who has struggled with feeling not good enough. I want to talk about all the different extremes that girls go through to feel beautiful.
Alessia Cara
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Yes, you can-if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. (Hays translation)
Marcus Aurelius
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It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.
Chelsea Handler
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You've simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether they'll be there tomorrow, do you?
Jilly Cooper
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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
Oscar Wilde
