Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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I believe in my music.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.
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I work very hard at each story, at every sentence.
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My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.
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The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.
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In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.
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Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
