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.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
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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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• I absolutely don't relate to being beaten down my whole life - I had amazing opportunities at a young age - but there is still in many, many people's minds the notion that I'll never be able to escape Harry Potter.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
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• I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.

  

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• I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.

  

  Karl Rove
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• When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.

  

  Bob Saget
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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