Oscar Wilde Quotes

The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Oscar Wilde

• Life
• Woman
• Husband
• For Her
• Boring

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• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

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• I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

  

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• I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

  

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• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

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• I think I need security.

  

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• I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.

  

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• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

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• Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.

  

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• There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.

  

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• When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.

  

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• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
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• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

  

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• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

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• I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.

  

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• I have met Tom Hanks. Several times. And he's been very nice.

  

  John Slattery
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• No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

  

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• In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

  

  John F. Kennedy
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• Stepping into the "shoes" of someone's life other than my own, great movies such as 'Cinema Paradiso,' scenic landscapes, the work of Daniel Day-Lewis, the books of Joel Goldsmith, traveling, doughnuts, ice cream.

  

  Reggie Lee
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• The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Husband