Oscar Wilde Quotes
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Oscar Wilde
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
Fairfax Cone
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
Vera Wang
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
Fareed Zakaria
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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
Harriet Tubman
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
E. W. Howe
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
R. L. Stine
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
Maggie Smith
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
Jack Dee
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
Imre Kertesz
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
Forest Whitaker
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
Canelo Alvarez
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
Maggie Stiefvater
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
Laura Lippman
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
Ed Begley, Jr.
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You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
Gabby Douglas
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
Jacob Batalon
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Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.
Walker Percy
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On the mission I brought a flag from China, I brought the stone sculpture from Hong Kong, and I brought a scroll from Taiwan. And what I wanted to do is, because as I was going up and I am this Chinese-American, I wanted to represent Chinese people from the major population centers around the world where there are a lot of Chinese people. And so, I wanted to bring something from each of those places and so it really wasn't a political thing and I hope people saw it that way. I was born here, I was raised in the U.S., and I'm an American first, but also very proud of my heritage.
Leroy Chiao
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I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.
Herb Ritts
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It can feel isolating to be a mom. I've been one and felt isolated.
Busy Philipps
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If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.
Ajahn Chah
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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Oscar Wilde
