Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
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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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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.
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Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long to recover from the finale of 'The Bachelor.'
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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 definitely people-watch. I often see photos of myself with my children: I'm always in the background with my mouth wide open, looking somewhere else.
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I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.
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Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
