Oscar Wilde Quotes
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.
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I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
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I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.
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I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
