Oscar Wilde Quotes

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
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Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.
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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
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Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.