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«I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.»
«Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. [On being a high-profile social smoker]»
«An image . . . is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.»
«I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.»
«I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.»
«A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.»
«I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.»
«If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.»
«There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.»
«If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Poverty | Keywords: profile, profiles