Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.
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People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.
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When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases I’m going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
