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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It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ.
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If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.
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People tend to wear a suit without a tie but it's a strange look, there's something missing. Either you wear a blazer and slacks, or you wear a suit and tie. It is challenging today to dress in an appropriate way.
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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...
