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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I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until they stop laughing that they just took something in that's going to start a conversation.
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We journalists like to think we are the new crusaders-it's much more gratifying than the image of the journalist pigs evoked by Spitting Image puppets.
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When shooting in real spaces, the work of a cinematographer begins where location meets production design meets time of day. No movie light will ever look as real as the sun, so scheduling becomes truly paramount to naturalistic lighting.
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The South may not always be right, but by God it's never wrong!
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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.