Oscar Wilde Quotes
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
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Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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It starts with campaign finance reform.
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I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.
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Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The landscape problem and the problem of background independence are closely linked. The latter is the only route the former has to experimental confirmation.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
