Oscar Wilde Quotes
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
Quotes to Explore
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.
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I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.
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I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
