Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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I choose to express myself.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
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Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how hard the industry will fall.
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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
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Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.
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The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
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In an imperfect world, full of imperfect leaders, there are countless statues that may not live up to our American values.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
