Oscar Wilde Quotes
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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I've never tried to be something I'm not.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
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I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.
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As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
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I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.
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They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.
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When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.
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When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.
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My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
