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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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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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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I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
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A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.
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People asked me to change my name for [808s]...I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.
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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.
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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
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Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
