Oscar Wilde Quotes
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
Oscar Wilde
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Karen Hesse
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
Rakul Preet Singh
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Joanne Rowling
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
Pat Buchanan
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
Park Chan-wook
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My book is not for everyone in the venture capital and entrepreneurial world, and that’s okay. If you try to please everybody and worry about offending anybody, nothing is going to happen. You might make some money, but you certainly won’t create wealth.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
Herbert Spencer
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I am a voice for innocent animals who are being neglected and dumped by the millions at shelters.
Joanna Krupa
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maybe that’s all love really is-friendship plus sex-and we get confused thinking that it should be more, and because we want it to be more, we start believing that it really is more.
David Gerrold
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The audience perked up the more. American conservatives were a combative tribe who didn’t speak of liberals as their “friends,” but here Reagan did. His tone was serious, but it wasn’t angry, the way Goldwater’s often was. Reagan criticized Democratic leaders, but he didn’t criticize Democrats. He condemned the direction the American government was going, but he professed confidence in the American people.
H. W. Brands
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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
Oscar Wilde