Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
Mae Jemison -
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham -
For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
Hans Kung -
I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
Gabriela Sabatini -
I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
Ira Glass
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
T. D. Jakes -
When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
Lance Loud -
I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
Aaron Johnson -
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
Zig Ziglar -
You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
Iman -
I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
Taylor Lautner
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I always have the impression that I write the same book.
Patrick Modiano -
We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
Olivia De Havilland -
Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.
Padma Lakshmi -
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde -
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.
Jerry Seinfeld -
“If I’d married,” she said softly, “I would never know what I was capable of doing. It turns out that when you take away my kid gloves and my morning dresses, I can do quite a bit. This may sound ridiculous, but I’m proud of myself.
Courtney Milan -
An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.
Jonathan Galassi -
I've been fortunate enough to travel to Edinburgh a few times over the last few years, and I just loved the city. I find it one of the more beautiful cities in Europe.
Joe Russo -
A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Matthew Arnold -
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
Oscar Wilde