Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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We're told all the time to give up everything for love. That's the Western notion of what love is - love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women.
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I do have advice for any kid actors. Just go in there and own it like you own the job already. You just have to say, 'I'm going to get this. I'm going to get this.'
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Modesty is the color of virtue.
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I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, I think it's safe to say.
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Me and Jesus are cool. I'm cool with all the gods. Gods recognize gods.
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When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
