Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• 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.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Always
  • Privilege

• When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Like
  • Radio

• Insults are the business of the court.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Business
  • Court
  • Insults

• 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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• 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.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Justice
  • Internet
  • Devil

• 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.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Effort
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Science
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • You
  • Person
  • Ever

• 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.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Want
  • Successful
  • Process

• As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Pain
  • Athlete

• 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.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Long
  • Home

• I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Different
  • Think
  • Always

• I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Play
  • Always
  • Lady

• 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.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Time
  • World
  • Love

• Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Technology
  • Movies

• Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Rain
  • Poor
  • Vain

• If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't think about it; you have to talk yourself then into, 'Listen, this is it. This is the gig. Broadway or no Broadway, you've got to do your job.'

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Open
  • Thousand
  • Graves

• I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Inspired
  • Stuff
  • Because

• A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

  

  Arnold H. Glasow
  • True
  • Friend

• Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith