Oscar Wilde Quotes
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
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When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
