Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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I wanted to develop a hypnosis show that no-one had ever seen before, so I made it very topical and interesting. I've created a UFC fight night every night on stage, where I hypnotise twenty people into thinking they're mad, crazed UFC fans, and the energy is unbelievable.
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There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.
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Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.
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I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.
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I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor is the first victim of translation.
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A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!
