Oscar Wilde Quotes
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
Quotes to Explore
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It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
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I definitely care about what I look like, certainly when I am going out in public, doing an appearance or something, but when I'm home, I'm all sweatpants, all the time.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
