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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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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I want to be a dad. That's floating to the top of my list. I think it's such an important thing. I'm at the age where everyone has kids, and I ask them, 'Is it like a puppy?' And they go, 'It's 10 times a puppy.'
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
