Oscar Wilde Quotes
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
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Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
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No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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People are offering competing visions of what happened in the past. And the justice system is willing to accept either of those competing visions and to impose consequences as a result. When you think of it that way, it's a little bit startling, because we want to believe that there is one truth and, therefore, one justice, whereas, if you have practiced law as long as I have, you realize that there is actually a range of acceptable outcomes.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
