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 feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.
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I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
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If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.
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Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.
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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.
