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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
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Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.
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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.
