Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roarBut bind him to his native mountains more.
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
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I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
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Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.
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What position didn't I play last season?
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The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.
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I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
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There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.
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I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun.
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So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roarBut bind him to his native mountains more.
