Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
Gaby Hoffmann -
The migration wave can be stopped.
Viktor Orban -
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
Vicki Baum -
I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
Zachary Quinto -
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
Barbra Streisand -
I open the doors for everybody all the time.
Olivia Colman
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. Mencken -
I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
Mallory Jansen -
No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
Abdul Qadeer Khan -
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
Aaron Paul -
My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
C. S. Forester
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I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
Zooey Deschanel -
My mother is going to get earrings of my head. Some will be dipped in silver, some will be dipped in gold, and I will hand them out to everyone I know.
D. J. Cotrona -
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
Nance O'Neil -
That fat speed that I love, that sensation, that's what I want.
Picabo Street -
Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.
Octave Mirbeau -
Art is a delivery system for worldviews.
Alex Grey
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Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination.
Valerie Martin -
I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
Vicky Hartzler -
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
Ornette Coleman -
Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The weather still continues charming.
Oscar Wilde