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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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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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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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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For me, Warhol made so much sense.
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I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.' That's as fun as it gets.
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I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable vs broadcast TV.
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In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.
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We played against each other like puppets, swearing you got pull When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes Getting knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise Look in the skies for god, what you see besides the smog Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene.
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No one can imagine the beauty of the view from anything witnessed in England. It had never been seen before by European eyes; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.
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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.
