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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When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.
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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
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Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel.
