Oscar Wilde Quotes

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
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I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.
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The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
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No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.