Oscar Wilde Quotes

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde

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• Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

  

  Faith Hill
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• I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

  

  Kate Adie
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• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
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• Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
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• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
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• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.

  

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• Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

  

  Harriet Tubman
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• The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
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• I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Game
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• You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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• I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

  

  Beck
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• Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.

  

  Ramez Naam
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• A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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• I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

  

  Kamisese Mara
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• By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

  

  Peter Abelard
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• 'When it is time to dress, make-up, take your bath and eat, it is time to hurry. Those things have little to do with your future. Don’t waste your time on what cannot guarantee your future; your mirror keeps deceiving you.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
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• Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

  

  Ajit Pai
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• You see Mexican cinema in festivals throughout the world, and you see Mexican directors getting recognized at Cannes, at the Oscars, in Berlin, but the question is, What is the end result of that in terms of the market? That's where it's lacking.

  

  Diego Luna
  • World
  • Question
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• Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Misunderstood