Oscar Wilde Quotes
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
A. J. Jacobs
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
Gary Oldman
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
Sal Albanese
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
Tamara Tunie
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There are days when I love a fresh blow-dry, but sometimes I just go with bedhead.
Deepika Padukone
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I never liked big parties, especially going alone. I much prefer smaller gatherings that are more intimate.
Yolanda Hadid
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We need legislation that encourages increased competition and tort reform and combats fraud, waste, and abuse. This would drive down health care costs, provide more 'bottom line' for our small businesses and lead to more private sector job growth.
Chris Gibson
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I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.
Gene Autry
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I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde