Oscar Wilde Quotes
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
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I'm 23 years old and still wearing pigtails.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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People are sheepish when they approach me.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
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Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
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I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
