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You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. [explaining his way out of a speeding ticket]


Oscar Levant

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OSCAR LEVANT I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
OSCAR LEVANT Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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OSCAR LEVANT I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
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OSCAR LEVANT Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
OSCAR LEVANT Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
OSCAR LEVANT Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
OSCAR LEVANT I once said cynically of a politician, Hell double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.
OSCAR LEVANT There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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OSCAR LEVANT There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
OSCAR LEVANT Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
OSCAR LEVANT Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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OSCAR LEVANT Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. On Dwight D. Eisenhower
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OSCAR LEVANT An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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OSCAR LEVANT I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
OSCAR LEVANT I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.
OSCAR LEVANT I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
OSCAR LEVANT I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
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OSCAR LEVANT Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
OSCAR LEVANT I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'
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OSCAR LEVANT So little time, so little to do.
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OSCAR LEVANT hypochondria, manic depression and addictions.
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OSCAR LEVANT It’s not what your are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts.
OSCAR LEVANT I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away
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OSCAR LEVANT So little time, so little to do
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OSCAR WILDE Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
OSCAR WILDE The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
OSCAR WILDE A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
OSCAR WILDE True friends stab you in the front.
OSCAR WILDE Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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OSCAR WILDE Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
OSCAR WILDE It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
OSCAR WILDE The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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OSCAR PETERSON I am the worlds laziest writer.
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OSCAR PETERSON I play as I feel.
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OSCAR NIEMEYER I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
OSCAR NIEMEYER I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
OSCAR NIEMEYER It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
OSCAR NIEMEYER Form follows beauty.
OSCAR NIEMEYER