Oscar Wilde Quotes

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

Oscar Wilde

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• Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

  

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• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

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• Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.

  

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• Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

  

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• It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

  

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• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

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• It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.

  

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• What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.

  

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• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

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• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

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• Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

  

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• My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

  

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• I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.

  

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• This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

  

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• Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.

  

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• I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.

  

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• When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.

  

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• A lot of times, people have something that they're afraid of. They've got a client that's mad at them. They've got a project that's due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don't let that happen.

  

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• The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Peace
  • Perfect
  • Personality