Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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'You're no help,' he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.
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Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
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I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.
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It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
