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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I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.
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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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I don't really see myself that way, as some typical sexy young ingénue. I've never been that way. And, for a while, there was a disconnect between who I am and how I present myself on a public platform. That was because I didn't necessarily feel comfortable sharing that much of myself with other people who I didn't know.
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I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to get on one side or the other. I think some of my best years were between 40 and 50: I got my priorities straight and life is good to me now. It's only other people who say, "God, she's 50 years old!" as if I'm over the hill. I feel like I just started.
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Artists who are the defenders of true life become phonies. That’s the perfidious thing about this world. Society turns anyone with a bit of life inside them into a medical case.
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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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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.
