Oscar Wilde Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
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Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.
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I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
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It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
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'Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.'The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.
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It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.
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Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.
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My parents are super cheap.
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I don't know how I could plan my career.
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I think most actors feel an obligation to do right by the people they're playing.
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My first real acting job was 'Skins' at eighteen years old, and I just kind of grew into myself in those two years; I would have done terribly if I'd have got that job at sixteen.
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I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.
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The big thing is that you know what you want.
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When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.
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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
