Oscar Wilde Quotes
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
Lamar S. Smith
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In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
Valerie Plame
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
Rand Paul
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
Abigail Washburn
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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
Os Guinness
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My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
Octavia Spencer
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
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If you want to know for sure that you are on the right path, here's your clue: You're not put in a position where you feel like you have to negotiate your sense of integrity, which is an act of betrayal. You don't feel like you have to compromise who you are.
Caroline Myss
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
Orhan Pamuk
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I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider. Art that is useful.
Jamila Woods
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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
Oscar Wilde
