Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
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You know what a woman's curiosity is.
