Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Walter Savage Landor -
Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
Ram Kapoor -
My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
Iris Apfel -
I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
Nate Berkus -
I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
Candace Parker -
The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
Larry Wilmore
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
Sally Mann -
In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
Hal David -
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
Vidal Sassoon -
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
Walt Disney -
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
Randy Travis -
The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
Daniel Boulud
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler -
Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
L. Neil Smith -
Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
Nancy O'Dell -
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
Mac Davis -
I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
Octavia Spencer
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Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.
Adam Christopher -
Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.
Vladimir Lenin -
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
Bill Vaughan -
The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy... They never went by that saying which you constantly hear from the wiseacres of our day, that time heals all things. They trusted rather their own character and prudence- knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how 'important' it is?
Orson Scott Card -
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde