Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.
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Steffi has had some results in the past, but it's a faster, more athletic game now than when she played.... She is old now. Her time has passed.
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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
