Oscar Wilde Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
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I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
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Time can be an enemy or a friend.
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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me.
