Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
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I like heels and make-up.
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If I get stuck doing comic-book films for the rest of my life, I'll be really happy.
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There is a certain oddity to Larry Fink having problems in Washington. He is a strong Democrat who has close ties to President Obama and has often been rumored as set to take a big administration job, such as Secretary of the Treasury.
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
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It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.
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Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
