Oscar Wilde Quotes
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.
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I like to cook for myself or others, so I cook. I always read at night. Sometimes I go to the movies. I don't go out wildly during the week.
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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
