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.

Oscar Wilde

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• Harmony
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• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

  Gary Ackerman
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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.

  

  Samantha Morton
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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.

  

  Uzo Aduba
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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.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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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.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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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.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
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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.

  

  Jackie Tabick
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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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• As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

  

  Kevin Bacon
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• The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

  

  Bill Brandt

• To the game code, the world is still just a tile map, but for rendering, each map was exported as a general-purpose 3D model, and the artists could then go through it and spend the polygons any way they liked, without the limits of line-of-constant-z software rasterization that we lived with on the mobile phones.

  

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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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happy
  • Pleasure
  • Harmony