Oscar Wilde Quotes
The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery.
Quotes to Explore
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
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Robin Williams was a wonderful, kind, and generous man. One important thing I remember about his personality is that he was unassuming - he never acted as if he was powerful or famous.
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Don't complain; just work harder.
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I can't sing or dance.
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It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.
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I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.
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I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.
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I can put up a blog in 10 seconds.
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Those four Super Bowl losses? Yeah, it sucks that we didn't win, but what are you going to do about it? You can feel sorry for yourself, but that's not how I was brought up.
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In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically - and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators.
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The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.
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I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
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For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.
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The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised.
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George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team." Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it.
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Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.
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An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
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The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery.
