Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I love action movies.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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I'm obsessed with being human.
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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
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As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
