Oscar Wilde Quotes
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
Ed Smith
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The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's 'Cinderella' was the first movie I ever saw. 'Peter Pan' was the first movie I ever saw in the movie theater. I grew up with 'Dumbo' and 'Pinocchio' and 'Sword in the Stone.' Those were the movies I wanted to make.
Damien Chazelle
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Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.
Kacey Musgraves
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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
Charles Dickens
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My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
Alton Brown
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Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
Jesse Ventura
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I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.
Kumail Nanjiani
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In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.
Kathryn Lasky
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In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on.
Matthew Stewart
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The most important thing in life is to love what you're doing, because that's the only way you'll ever be really good at it.
Donald Trump
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As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.
John Lancaster Spalding
