Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
Quotes to Explore
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
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I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
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Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue.
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I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.
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Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
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Margaret, Texas is lost.
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Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality...and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.
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I inherited honesty and self-discipline from my father; from my mother, I inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness as did my three brothers and sisters.
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'WTF is MDNA?
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I play the Terminator, but you guys are the true terminators.
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Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
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It was never something I had in my mind to do – a show on Nickelodeon, let alone being consider a teen idol. It’s odd. I remember my mom picking up a magazine with me on the cover and saying, ‘You don’t know how weird this is for me.’ I told her, ‘You don’t know how weird it is for me!’
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We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person.
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Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
