Oscar Wilde Quotes
The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Barbara Deming
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
Irvine Welsh
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
Harrison Salisbury
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
Dakota Blue Richards
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The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
Karen Duffy
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
J. Paul Getty
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Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.
Mads Mikkelsen
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If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night.
John Hunter
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All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
Hippocrates
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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde