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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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.
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The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.
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I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that I should join him 3 times a week for rowing because my hands were so big that I would'nt require oars to row.
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
