Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfullyHe who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully.
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Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.
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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
