Oscar Wilde Quotes
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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People think that painting is about colorIt's mostly compositionIt's composition that's the whole thingThe classic image-Two late Tang dishes, one with a flower image,one empty – the empty form goes all the way to heavenIt is the classic form – lighter weight.
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If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do is in some way overcome this linear experience of time that makes all existence a quest for something that will never be found.And philosophies such as Zen seem to hint that this is possible.
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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Oooh, oh, how many eyesHave seen their dream?Oh, how many armsHave felt their dream?How many hearts, baby...Have felt their world stand still?
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I think the world sort of looks to the kids who have potential. These are the kids who are going to do something with their lives, who are going to do something for the world. I don't think it's malicious, but the other kids get lost from that point on.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
