Oscar Wilde Quotes
The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
Quotes to Explore
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Mine is one of the most beautiful professions in fashion: making others happy with an idea... I am happy because I did the job I dreamt of as a child.
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The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!
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I don't like losing. I like winning. I don't like to lose beautiful matches. I like to win ugly ones.
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The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.
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The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
