Oscar Wilde Quotes
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.
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Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.
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Vathek has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.
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Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
