Oscar Wilde Quotes
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.
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Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification.
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The only people who distrust the cops are crooks. They're not out there just harassing innocent people. Maybe sometimes they do. But there's no inherent situation where cops are deliberately out there harassing people.
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Running is bad for your knees, and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim.
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France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)
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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
