Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I find the business world hard.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Immigrants are not the main threat to the industrialized world's workforce: robots are - or, rather, artificially intelligent robots are.
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That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
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Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.
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My grandma actually put me in girdles when I was around nine or ten because I had hips even then, and she didn't want boys to be attracted to me. Having hips meant you were a full-grown woman, and I was too young for that.
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I picked out my Halloween costume. I’m going as 'Slutty Madeleine Albright.'
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The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.
