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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Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.
Nikola Tesla
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Two heavyset, rough-looking men were arguing about politics, and he was struck anew by a thought he used to have often when he lived here: there is no such thing as a French tough guy. A French tough guy, even if he’s tough as nails, speaks French, and therefore isn’t very tough at all. These men looked like boxers, but they were speaking a feminine language and sipping daintily from tiny espresso cups. Schiller, six-foot-something and wide, always felt terribly manly in France, the land of fragile men.
Brian Morton
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
J. K. Simmons
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I actually started, as a result of 'Scandal,' instead of wearing a bathrobe, wearing sweaters around at home in my leisure. And my poor husband was very confused! I said, 'It's what Olivia Pope does'.
Betsy Beers
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
George Will
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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
Oscar Wilde
