Oscar Wilde Quotes
He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression...
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Modern research on conversion has demonstrated that, long after such an experience, a convert tends to confuse what actually happened in light of everything that occurs in its aftermath.
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The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.
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Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.
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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression...
