Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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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.
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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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.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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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.
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Shun all vice, especially card playing.
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
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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.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.
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He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.
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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
