Oscar Wilde Quotes
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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I have a couture body.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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A novel, or indeed any work of art, is not intended to be a literal transcription from Nature. … Life is a series of false values. There it is always the little things that are greatest. Art attempts to remedy this. It may be defined as an expurgated edition of Nature.
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In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.
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Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.
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I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
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Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
