Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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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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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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Paramore fans are the best fans. Wanna fight about it?
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They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned. They should have a little bit of honor. This is supposed to be rock 'n' roll. This is supposed to be friendly. This is like going through the trenches together.
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When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
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Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
