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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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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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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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.
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I love the beach, and I love sunshine.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.