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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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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You can make a beautiful thing, but there's no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing, wrecking a thing, questioning a thing to the point where you have pushed it to the edge, and then recuperating it.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
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You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced for television or film or something, you're not 100 percent sure if what you wrote is actually going to work.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
