Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
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At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.
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When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.
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It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
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Leave the atom alone.
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I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Jack: I can't understand it. On your show you always win.
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Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
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Listening in response to criticism mandates a shift in our internal psyche that marks perhaps the most important single evolutionary shift humans can make.
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He believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don’t believe in it at all.
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Quo magis in dubiis hominem spectare periclisconvenit adversisque in rebus noscere qui sit;nam verae voces tum demum pectore ab imoeliciuntur et eripitur persona, manet res.
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Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.
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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
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The discipline of desire is the background of character.
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The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
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To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
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Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
