Oscar Wilde Quotes

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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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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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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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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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.
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America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.
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I believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can't give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it's peace or joy or satisfaction.
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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.