Oscar Wilde Quotes
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I so wish people had seen it your way, but I think too many of us have read the story to say it gives European white males carte blanche to play God over creation; so `having dominion' gives them a license to pollute and exploit.
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I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
