Oscar Wilde Quotes
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
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I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.
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The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.
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He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.
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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.
