Oscar Wilde Quotes
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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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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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.
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It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.
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You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.
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New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
