Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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I dig Steve Harvey: he's the suit man. I be checking him out.
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.
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For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas
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I remember Prince gave me a cassette of Purple Rain. It was like 20 minutes long and he asked me to write something on it. I tried for a month and then he came to L.A. I went to see him and said, "I can't do it. It's too perfect. It's like 'Stairway to Heaven.'" He said OK and then I go, "I can keep the cassette, right?" He said, "Of course and thank you for trying."
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We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.
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Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
