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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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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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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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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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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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.
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I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
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Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
