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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Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty- their power and privilege- to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.
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To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.
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I've always found the rhetoric of mainstream civil rights leaders and organizations to be far too timid, accommodationist, and gradualist. It always seemed to me that they behaved like meek and gentle supplicants begging the oppressor for a few crumbs of justice, for a few molecules of citizenship rights.
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We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
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Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.
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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.
