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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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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I love running and I will always run.
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I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
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My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
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God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.
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The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.
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Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.
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One of the great things about Churchill is that he had the guts to say the unpalatable, to level with the people, even if it cost him politically to tell them the truth.
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Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
