Oscar Wilde Quotes

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

Oscar Wilde

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• Crimes
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• Ugliness

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• My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.

  

  Ferid Murad
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• If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.

  

  Samantha Power
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• The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• In Germany I am not so famous.

  

  Hans Berger
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• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
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• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

  

  Adam Pally
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  • Think
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• I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• Politics is not an exact science.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
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• I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Movie
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• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Power

• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

  

  Jack Adams
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  • Well
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• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
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• A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Soul
  • Culture

• If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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  • Time
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• I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Good
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• I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Dog

• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Always
  • Actions
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• At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Life

• I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in the same place all the time, and people like me who are constantly roaming around.

  

  Iain Sinclair
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  • Time
  • City

• America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • America
  • Political
  • City

• Ebola is a humiliating disease that strips you of your dignity. You are removed from family and put into isolation where you cannot even see the faces of those caring for you due to the protective suits - you can only see their eyes.

  

  Kent Brantly
  • Family
  • Eyes
  • Caring

• I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • City
  • Excuse
  • Crimes