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.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Living

• 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.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Community
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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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.

  

  Edmund White
  • May
  • Death
  • Quality

• Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.

  

  Adam Draper
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  • Trust
  • Something

• I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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  • Lose
  • Speech

• 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.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
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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.

  

  A. A. Milne
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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.

  

  Gary Burton
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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.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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  • Sex

• I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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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.

  

  Carl Paladino
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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.

  

  Quentin Blake
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  • Home
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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.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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  • Better

• I actually did ponder doing the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie thing and get a kid from Ethiopia. But you know, I already have an ashtray.

  

  Zach Braff

• I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.

  

  Alexander Chee
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• One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Style

• I felt like, in the recent past, people have been apologizing for Superman, a little bit, for his costume, for his origins, and for the way he fits into society.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Society
  • Past

• For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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