Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
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I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can't do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.
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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.
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Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
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As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
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Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
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I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.
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I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
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I love going to conventions, and I love spending time with the fans and going to parts of the world where I wouldn't normally go.
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Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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I think that is just a limitation of any questionnaire - that we apply a frame of reference or standard. It's a well-known finding in psychology that when people are total beginners at a skill, they tend to overrate their skill level. They don't know what they don't know. The more expert you are, the more critical you become.
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I like it when I strut.
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I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.
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I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.
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Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.
