Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
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When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.
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I started using Twitter a lot and realized I had a lot of fans. Then I saw that I can share my music on Twitter and share my YouTube videos on Twitter. That's how I knew social media was going to be a platform to show my music. That's how I started. I started with Twitter.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
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You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
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Science fiction is an extension of science.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.
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Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.
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Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.
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Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel.
