Oscar Wilde Quotes
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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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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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
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I ain't drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I've experienced way more.
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There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.
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I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
