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...Oscar Wilde
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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.
Larry Hovis -
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.
Kat Graham -
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
Malik Bendjelloul -
I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
Kailash Kher -
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Umberto Eco -
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell
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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.
Ram Kapoor -
It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
Laura Fraser -
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
Adam Grant -
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
Gary Johnson -
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
Rachel Dratch
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
Omari Hardwick -
I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
Malala Yousafzai -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
Zendaya -
Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
Carli Lloyd -
I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
Damian Lewis
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For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.
Walt Whitman -
In music, you learn a lot of things when you don't know what you're doing.
Eric Bachmann -
Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
There are some quite funny things about getting famous and stuff, but I think there comes a point where you have to think to yourself, "Well, am I doing this because I want to go to a party and meet Britney Spears? Or am I doing it because I want to create something that excites me?"
Jarvis Cocker Pulp -
Our parts matter because we matter.
Elaine S. Dalton -
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...
Oscar Wilde