Oscar Wilde Quotes
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
Quotes to Explore
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
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I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.
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The world badly needs more peaceful and loving men like Sri Chinmoy. I am a Muslim and he is serving all people of peace. Sri Chinmoy is doing so much for the world, for people of all faiths, because of his own peace and faith.
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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
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They believed in self-defense, which is a constitutional right — the Second Amendment of the Constitution gave me the right to bear arms. And they carried that out in an organized manner, a very disciplined and very organized manner. And that was the first phase of the Black Panther Party. But there’s also the phase of dealing with the social programs, the political solidarity, … and international politics as well. It was an organization for human rights.
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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
