Oscar Wilde Quotes

I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

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• I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Reading
  • Books
  • Internet

• I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Picture
  • Ask
  • Got

• Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Children
  • History
  • Myself

• I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Give
  • Terrible

• You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Father
  • Know

• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Losing

• The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Together
  • Nature

• Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Cutting

• In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Power
  • End
  • Actor

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Life
  • Try

• I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Great
  • Will
  • Next

• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Career
  • Proud

• I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Wind

• I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not have some kind of an evolution within myself and my own thought process and a passion about things or what's happening in the world. All of those things are the elements that make you who you are, and those are the things that sincerely come across in a photo or a commercial or in an interview. That's a constant thing for me.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Movie
  • Passion
  • Evolution

• All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Alive

• If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Cool

• Oh, hide me in your gloom profound, Ye solemn seats of holy pain! Take me, cowl'd forms, and fence me round, Till I possess my soul again; Till free my thoughts before me roll, Not chafed by hourly false control!

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Soul
  • Free
  • Control

• If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Like
  • Bored
  • Characters

• I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Food
  • Like
  • Sick