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 think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Same

• Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Inspiration
  • Obligation

• It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Nice
  • Achievement
  • Year

• I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Different
  • Development
  • Percent

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

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Picture
  • Got
  • Ask

• 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

• I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Discussion

• 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

• Richard Burton is one of my heroes.

  

  Mark Shand

• We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Money
  • Nature
  • Value

• It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Life
  • Different
  • America

• I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.

  

  Bryn Terfel
  • People
  • Sick
  • Jump

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Food
  • Like
  • Sick