Oscar Wilde Quotes
The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very self-critical.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.
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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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We can't be The Beatles. I can't shine their shoes. I can't sing as well as Paul or John. I can't write those kind of songs. But they would die in my armour and my eight-inch platform heels, and Paul can't spit fire, so there you have it.
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I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.
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We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.
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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
