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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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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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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You spend all day getting the song goo,d and you're listening to it late at night, and you're happy with it. But you should sleep on it and come back in the morning and make sure.
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On this night, on this occasion, on this Olympic day, I was able to come through.
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Day after dayThere are girls at the officeAnd men will always be men.Don't send him off with your hair still in curlers;You may not see him again.
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There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.
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A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!
