Oscar Wilde Quotes
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potential career.
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We should infer in the case of a beautiful dwelling-place that it was built for its owners and not for mice; we ought, therefore, in the same way to regard the universe as the dwelling-place of the gods.
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I don't know where I'm supposed to meet a boyfriend. It's weird.
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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
