Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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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.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would come into my studio, see me drawing or working on photographs, and just slump down at my feet with a big sigh. Fortunately for both of us the year ended. Polaroid had invented a new camera, the twenty-by-twenty-four, and I was invited to Cambridge, Mass., to experiment with it. Naturally, I took Man Ray and we were working again.
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It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.
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I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.
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Sure enough, my life has been filled with some pretty interesting things every single day.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
