Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov -
We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
Jackie DeShannon -
Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
Ramana Maharshi -
To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
Kate Baldwin -
There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
Sam Waterston -
As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
Barry Jenkins
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
Laura Harrier -
The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
Jaan Tallinn -
Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
Yair Lapid -
When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
Zac Brown Band -
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Vince Gill -
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung -
I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
Rachael Harris -
When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.
Anton Zaslavski -
When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
Victoria Pratt -
I have matured a lot.
Usain Bolt
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I'm tired of being hunted all over. I can't go anywhere without criticism.
Bela Karolyi -
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
William Shakespeare -
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.
William Cowper -
Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.
Cleve Jones -
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith