Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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No woman wants to have fat ankles.
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I had to be clean-shaven all the time to play a Mormon missionary, so after I was done, I grew a mustache out of rebellion. It was actually very polarizing. I became attractive to a completely new group of people and also repulsive to a new group of people. The lesson: mustaches are divisive.
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Our time on Earth is so random.
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We have salads, some other beverages. But in reality, it's still fundamentally the same business. The most likely thing the next person will buy is a sandwich and a soft drink. After a half-century of glacial change, we're still pretty much the same business.
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Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
