Oscar Wilde Quotes
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
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I am a very selfish person.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Manhood is tested by trial, and valour climbs unterrified the rocky path and difficult ascent that leads to glory.
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I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope. He stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small and narrow world to explore.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
