Oscar Wilde Quotes

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

Oscar Wilde

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• I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Knowledge
  • Movies
  • Legacy

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Christmas
  • Year
  • Hockey

• Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Simple
  • Proud
  • Issues

• I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Digital

• As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Way

• L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Guilty
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Control

• I have disassociated myself from that book.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Book
  • Myself

• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Love
  • Help

• I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Act

• I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Want

• I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• I'll say anything to live.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Live
  • Say
  • Anything

• Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Living

• For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Child

• The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Yourself
  • Place
  • Situation

• In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • America
  • You
  • Walk

• What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?

  

  Socrates
  • Parents
  • Law
  • Young

• If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.

  

  Lincoln Kirstein
  • Work
  • Character
  • Beautiful

• The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Things
  • Possible

• Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Things
  • Perfection
  • Possessing