Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.
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Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.
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We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
