Oscar Wilde Quotes
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Oscar Wilde
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
Ian Mckellen
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
Patrick Wilson
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
Kangana Ranaut
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
Candace Camp
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
Randy West
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
Wanda Sykes
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
Nazanin Boniadi
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Samuel Goldwyn
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
Saku Koivu
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
Aaron Siskind
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
Ted Williams
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I was a stoopball fan. I played stoopball all the time.
Alan Arkin
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However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.
William Labov
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My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
Denzel Washington
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Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
John F. Kennedy
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Oscar Wilde