Oscar Wilde Quotes
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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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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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
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I'm not really a pianist.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.
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Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
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Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
