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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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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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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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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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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Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.
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I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.
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Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and Malcolm X actually worked and how the book, the autobiography, was constructed.
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Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
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The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose-and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead.
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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.
