Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.
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During winter sunsets, standing on a promontory so I saw the scenic sea as a surface rather than a line and, as coal-boats appeared from all sides of the horizon, I thought that, as they opened their portholes, they would throw their coals onto this fire. They swarmed over the ocean like blowflies ready to devour the decomposed star, and the blank gesture of a cloud fanned them.
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Obama doesn't know how to invent the iPhone; he can't start a successful business. He's never really worked in a business except for the briefest of times.
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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
