Oscar Wilde Quotes

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

Oscar Wilde

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• Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

  

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• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

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• Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.

  

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• Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

  

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• It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

  

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• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

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• It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.

  

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• What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.

  

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• It's kind of fun to be sexy.

  

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• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

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• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

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• Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

  

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• My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

  

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• I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.

  

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• Don't swim up stream, baby. The future was right where you were. 23.

  

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• I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

  

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• There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

  

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• Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

  

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• The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Peace
  • Perfect
  • Personality