Oscar Wilde Quotes

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

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• Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.

  

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• I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

  

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

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• Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

  

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

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• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

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• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

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• My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

  

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• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

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• I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

  

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• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

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• One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.

  

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• Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

  

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• The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

  

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• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

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• I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

  

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• Daredevil was known as 'The Man Without Fear,' and I just thought, 'Well, I don't think that's very interesting.' I don't think it's very interesting to watch someone who's incapable of feeling fear. It also removes from the palate my favorite character attribute, which is courage. If you're not afraid, you can't exercise courage.

  

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• I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.

  

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• I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Faults
  • Relations