Oscar Wilde Quotes
How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.
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My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
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The hand is where the mind meets the world.
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I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.
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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am.
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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
