Oscar Wilde Quotes
Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'
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A dream, a dream, - it is all a dream, A strange, sad dream, good sooth; For old as I am, and old as I seem, My heart is full of youth.
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It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I could just drop the ball when the coverage was on him or anything else.
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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.
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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.
