Oscar Wilde Quotes

To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.

Oscar Wilde

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• I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Return
  • Defeat
  • Terrorists

• Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Respect
  • Popular

• I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Work
  • Walk
  • Work Hard

• I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Truth
  • True

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
  • Interesting

• A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Want
  • Talk
  • Little Girls

• We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Where
  • Chosen
  • Exactly

• My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Air

• With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Money
  • Focus

• I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Kid

• The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Love
  • Find
  • Gym

• And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Think
  • Heaven
  • Blessing

• 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

  

  B. B. King
  • Great
  • She
  • Song

• A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Children
  • Today
  • Problem

• I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Movie
  • Angel
  • Bike

• I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Remember
  • Interviews

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Diversity

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.

  

  Don Young
  • People
  • Remember
  • Age

• People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

  

  John Bolton
  • People
  • Victory

• To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Society
  • Shock