Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
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I don't want to be away from wrestling even a little.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
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The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.
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And because no one who works full-time in America should have to live in poverty, I am going to keep making the case that we need to raise the minimum wage because it's lower right now than it was when Ronald Reagan took office. It's time for the minimum wage to go up.
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Batman and Superman are probably my favorite superheroes - apart from Constantine.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.
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Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's responsibility, to dismantle the structures that keep white people in positions of power. We do our job to thrive, to survive. To protect ourselves, to sit together and feel better and to heal.
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Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.
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He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence.
