Oscar Wilde Quotes
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
Oscar Wilde
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
Harrison Birtwistle
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
Rabih Alameddine
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
Gabriel Luna
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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
William Godwin
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
Ted Cruz
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
Karen Gillan
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I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
Oscar Wilde
