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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These days the biggest issue is how many calories you consume. So all of this stuff distracts people from thinking about calories.
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Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.
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The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.
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It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) in my left breast. I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky.
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I don't think about awards when I set out to do something. If that happens, it's great.
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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.
