Oscar Wilde Quotes
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Quotes to Explore
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
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If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.
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If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.
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I thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.
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I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
