Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

Oliver Goldsmith

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• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
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• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

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• With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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• Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

  

  L. Neil Smith
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• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
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• I do what I can do to help my defense.

  

  Malik Jackson
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• I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
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• Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

  

  Hannah More
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• It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • World
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  • American

• I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Masculinity

• I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.

  

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• I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.

  

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• We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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• I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

  

  Yves Rossy
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• Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.

  

  Aldous Huxley
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• If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away?... Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

  

  Anna Hutchison
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• I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

  

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  • Driving

• It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Great
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• The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.

  

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• When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Character
  • Bad
  • House