Oscar Wilde Quotes
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
Lara Logan
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
Zosia Mamet
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You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
R. Kelly
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
Tamora Pierce
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
Hale Irwin
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
Hannibal Buress
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
Adam Davidson
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
Rahm Emanuel
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
Ina Garten
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You always learn something from mistakes.
Yani Tseng
