Oscar Wilde Quotes

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.

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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
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It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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I'm not really the sex symbol type.
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Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.
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The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
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There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce 'that great past to a trouble of fools.' For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.
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For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
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Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.
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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.