Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
Quotes to Explore
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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I still have a lot of military contacts, and friends and readers who've served or are serving, and they react really strongly to G.I. Joe. I've lost count of the number who've said, 'Oh, I just loved it as a kid. I had all the figures; it really made me think.'
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My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
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My absolute dream would be to play for Manchester United and help them reach the goals they have.
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I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.
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My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.
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Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.
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Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.
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And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
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As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
