Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.Oliver Goldsmith
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
Taraji P. Henson -
Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
Pardis Sabeti -
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein -
I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
La'Porsha Renae -
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E. Joseph Cossman
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I love zoo sanctuaries.
Nancy Travis -
I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
Maddie Ziegler -
I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
G. Willow Wilson -
Shun all vice, especially card playing.
Nathan Hale -
Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
Harry Anderson
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At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
E. O. Wilson -
The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
Said Nursi -
This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.
Brown Campbell -
I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
Barbra Streisand -
No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
Walton Goggins
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Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
Jasper Fforde -
I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
Edgar Winter -
Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
Zhang Ziyi -
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith