Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.
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I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
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The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.
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I studied scriptural interpretation, which is more about how people get meaning out of texts, looking at stuff in the Old Testament - Muslims, Christians, Jews, different interpretations of the same texts.
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When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.
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About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.
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For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
