Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
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If the universe has any soul, it is the soul of irony.
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Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.
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I'm not always a smiley kind of guy.
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I only say this because a lot of people seem to think that if you're a musician you want to be a celebrity. But most musicians in the world aren't celebrities, and pretty much everything about the concept of 'celebrity' is a complete load of bollocks anyhow.
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The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
