Oscar Wilde Quotes
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
Quotes to Explore
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.
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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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This is Seattle. We're supposed to have superior taste.
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
