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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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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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 don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.
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I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.
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I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.
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With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.
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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.
