Oscar Wilde Quotes
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.
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I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that.
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.
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My wife Gwenaelle prepares an 'energy shot' for me for breakfast. It's a mix of linseed, cereal, and raisins, with fresh fruit like kiwi. She also adds yogurt for added texture and some pollen and honey for an energy booster.
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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
