Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

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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?

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
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• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.

  

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• I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be 'seen through,' or, even worse, instantly hated.

  

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• As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

  

  Jonathan Brandis
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• The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
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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