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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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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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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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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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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I am happy in Paris.
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The fans treated me royally.
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It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.
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I actually have great respect for the professionals on both sides, journalism designers in the fashion industry, and I wanted to make a movie that celebrated what they did as much as poke fun at the challenges of their lives.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.
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I would say I have a bit of a nerd vibe.
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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.
