Oscar Wilde Quotes
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
Mae Jemison
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
Francesco Guicciardini
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
A. E. van Vogt
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
Katarina Witt
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
Barry Marshall
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
Ralph Fiennes
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
Bart Gordon
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
Pat Oliphant
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
Vidya Balan
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
Zac Efron
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There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
M. J. Rose
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
Magnus Carlsen
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
Jack O'Connell
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
Sam Smith
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The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
Lapo Elkann
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I'm happy where I'm at now, but I want to show the world that I'm the No. 1 fighter. I want to prove it the world. I'm focused and ready.
Alistair Overeem
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
Sam Harris
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A penny saved is two pence clear.
Benjamin Franklin
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LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
William Shakespeare
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde