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Oscar Wilde Quotes

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: irish
Birth: October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

Topics

Good Optimism Stupidity World You

There's a character, Eon, I did back in the 'Captain Marvel' story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere.

Character Kitchen Story Bag Back Up

The French repulsed wave after wave of frontal attacks at Dien Bien Phu. The 1968 Tet offensive against the U.S. was a military disaster that effectively destroyed the Viet Cong. But Giap persisted and prevailed.

Wave Military Offensive Against

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

Robert McNamara

Conscience United Sanity Global Nor

Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore.

New York Bad New Review Got Like

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

Leader Responsibility Take Being

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

Martin O'Malley

Grow Living Prosperity Become More

It's cool to think about nursing, because a lot of people decide to go into it later in their lives. I could slip into school to be an LPN or an RN as a middle-aged man, and it wouldn't be unusual.

Man School People Cool Think Go

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Life Success Good God Wisdom Walk

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

Work Myself Responsibility Identity

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

Alison Goldfrapp

Guilt Pleasures About Any

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

Said Never Cattle Like Should

If everybody has to take biology and chemistry, they can take computer science. Computer science is a more useful skill right now than a lot of other things that people are learning at school.

Learning Science School People Skill

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