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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When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.
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How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.
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Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.
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The sweet spots where people have parked a lot of their money are the intermediate bond funds, with returns from the low-3 to above 4 percent. That isn't mind-blowing, but it has driven up interest in bond funds.
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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...
