Oscar Wilde Quotes
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
H. Rap Brown
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
Aasif Mandvi
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I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
W. Bruce Cameron
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
Oscar Hammerstein II
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
Madison Smartt Bell
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
Karen Armstrong
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
Fiona Apple
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An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
Indira Varma
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There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. Keep your hands to yourself, Bill. Hillary, mind your own business.
P. J. O'Rourke
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She had a need to feel the thunder,To chase the lightning from the sky,To watch a storm with all its wonderWritten in her lover's eyes.She had to ride the heat of passionLike a comet burning bright,Rushing headlong in the windNow where only dreams have been,Burning both ends of the night.
Garth Brooks
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I feel that after working a long time, I’ve really learned how to do what I do. I enjoy it. I don’t think there’s anything more satisfying than turning out a good stanza or a good piece of prose. And when you’re satisfied enough, you want to show it to other people. That’s called publication.
Karl Shapiro
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I was very influenced by the films of the '70s.
Lisa Cholodenko
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Carl Sagan always used to say that when he was trying to explain something to someone, he would go back to that time when he didn't understand it, and then he would retrace his thought steps so that he could make it absolutely clear, and that's one of the infinite number of things I learned from him.
Ann Druyan
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Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.
Darrell Issa
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It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet in any other city, and you'd be considered a nerd, but here, there's no shame in it, and it's absolutely valued.
Irvin Mayfield
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That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.
Scott Ritter
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
Oscar Wilde
