Oscar Wilde Quotes

The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Oscar Wilde

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• Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.

  

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• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
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• You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• I think violence can never be justified.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
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• In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.

  

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• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
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• Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

  

  Lamar Alexander
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• Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
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• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
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• I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

  

  Rachael Harris
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• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.

  

  Landon Liboiron
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• Washington is broken.

  

  Patty Judge
  • Broken

• I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.

  

  Jami Attenberg
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• I'm not a sex symbol.

  

  Jenny McCarthy
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• Did you want me to stay?" Kylie's yes and Lucas' no chimed out at the same time. "Sorry," Lucas said, not sounding sorry as he looked at Della. "But I need Kylie's full attention to teach her, and you would just distract her." "Right," Della said in a tone of complete disbelief. Lucas frowned at the vamp. "Okay," Della said. "I'll just mosey along.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Needs

• The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Art
  • Interest