Oscar Wilde Quotes

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

Oscar Wilde

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• I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.

  

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• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

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• The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.

  

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• I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

  

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• For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

  

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• Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.

  

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• Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

  

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• Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

  

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• The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

  

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• Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

  

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• My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.

  

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• I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

  

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• I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

  

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• I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

  

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• Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

  

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• Baseball, however, is the most individual of team sports: In perfectly discernible packets the game reduces to one batter versus one pitcher, with each assuming responsibility for the other, every matchup a still photograph that flipped together form the moving picture we call nine innings.

  

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• I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.

  

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• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

  

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• My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

  

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• Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Know