Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
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There is no truly global justice.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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When I see dads being most effective with children, it is usually when they have an intuitive understanding that, for example, the car trip to and from the soccer game is potentially as important as the game itself.
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Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but it is the most exciting way.
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The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets.
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It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
