Oscar Wilde Quotes
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
Quotes to Explore
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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We just here to do our job.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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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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I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
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There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.
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It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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We live in the world's greatest democracy; we want for nothing. And that which we want, we can work toward achieving.
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
