Oscar Wilde Quotes
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb a the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
Warren Zevon -
The future is much like the present, only longer.
Dan Quisenberry -
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
Owain Yeoman -
Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
Samuel Goldwyn
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
Ed Markey -
You need to train your brain to be positive.
Nargis Fakhri -
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
Adam Jones -
I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
Nathan Fillion -
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
Karl Malone
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde -
As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
Aaron Neville -
My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
Iman -
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
Zack Greinke
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For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.
Rachel Bloom -
I was always fast; I was always racing guys that were older than me and beating them, so I always had speed. I was able to make good cuts at a young age, on the side of the house with my dad, going through different plays, working on cuts and stuff like that.
Adrian Peterson -
I remember seeing a movie with Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney where they were husband and wife, and they got in bed, and he had on polka-dot pajamas and she had on striped pajamas, and when they got up the next morning he had on the striped pajamas and she had the polka dot pajamas, and that was considered racy at that time!
Bob Newhart -
Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.
Kerby Jean-Raymond -
It's sad that because I have one friend who is in the public eye, just being seen out together once means we're romantically involved. But I don't take it seriously, and it doesn't really affect me much.
Dylan Penn -
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb a the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
Oscar Wilde