Oscar Wilde Quotes
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.
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Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
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“Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the .”
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
