Oscar Wilde Quotes
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
Quotes to Explore
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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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?
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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Even the wise need wisdom.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul
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My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot Those amorous cries that out of quiet come And must the common round of day resume.
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There should be no bank too big to fail and no individual too big to jail.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.
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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
