Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.