Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
The only art her guilt to cover,To hide her shame from every eye,To give repentance to her lover,And wring his bosom, is — to die.
Quotes to Explore
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.
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Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.
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I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.
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He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
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I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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The only art her guilt to cover,To hide her shame from every eye,To give repentance to her lover,And wring his bosom, is — to die.
