Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
Ferdinand Christian Baur -
I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
Gary Coleman -
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor -
People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
Macaulay Culkin -
I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
Iman
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
C. V. Raman -
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.
Zachary Levi -
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
J. D. Hayworth -
I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
Pat Paulsen -
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer -
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
Daniel Bryan -
Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
Aaron Allston -
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
Ingmar Bergman -
The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
Tamora Pierce -
Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.
Becky Lynch -
I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
Dakota Fanning
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca the Younger -
I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they'd realize the brutality of war and figure out there's got to be some better way than killing human beings who are just trying to farm a field.
Haskell Wexler -
The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
Kandyse McClure -
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
Oscar Wilde