Oscar Wilde Quotes
The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
Quotes to Explore
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
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I'm a softball player. I'm a soccer player. I played tennis every day. I love being outside.
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I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.
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in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.
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I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
