Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it. It's like being in the whirlpools which are always present behind a little rock near a river. We seem to be living in these little whirlpools and forget that there is a whole river. The picture is much bigger.
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I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.
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Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
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The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
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When I'm sick, all I want to do is curl up in a ball and sleep for days!
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Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears...
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His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.
