Oscar Wilde Quotes
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Quotes to Explore
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.
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Faith is important to me.
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One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.
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I wait for death and journalists.
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You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
