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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I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.
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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.