Oscar Wilde Quotes
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Quotes to Explore
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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There is a daily discussion with our servants about the price of food and the number of loaves: a conference with our presbyters to consider the sins of our people is a very rare occurrence.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
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Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.
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Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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No gentleman ever has any money.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free.
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As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.
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Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
