Oscar Wilde Quotes

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

Oscar Wilde

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• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

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• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

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• My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.

  

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• Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

  

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• I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

  

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• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

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• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

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• Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

  

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• Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

  

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• A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.

  

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• I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.

  

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• The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

  

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• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

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• I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.

  

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• I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.

  

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• My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.

  

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• As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.

  

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• I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.

  

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• Art is the daughter of freedom.

  

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• Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

  

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• In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Public
  • Appreciate