Oscar Wilde Quotes
There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.
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In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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Then we have the silence of the eyes which will always help us to see God. Our eyes are like two windows through which Christ or the world comes to our hearts. Often we need great courage to keep them closed. How often we say, I wish I had not seen this thing, and yet we take so little trouble to overcome the desire to see everything.
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We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
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There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
