Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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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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Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn't getting enough work done.
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I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
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Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.
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No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
