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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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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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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I always knew I'd go to space.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.
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I am not old, - I cannot be old, Though threescore years and ten Have wasted away, like a tale that is told, The lives of other men: I am not old ; though friends and foes Alike have gone to their graves, And left me alone to my joys or my woes, As a rock in the midst of the waves.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
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I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.
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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.
