Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
Ian Beattie -
What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
Laura Moser -
Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
Sadie Frost -
The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
Edmund Phelps -
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
Jack Lew -
The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
Vanessa Lachey -
Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
Pamela Meyer -
I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
Kate Adie -
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot -
Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
Laura Dern
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
Larry Hogan -
I hate being too pretty.
Rachel Bilson -
We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.
Jack Dangermond -
Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
Talcott Parsons
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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
James A. Michener -
I would have liked the old days.
David Wells -
Just think life's too short to get hung up on maybes.
A. Meredith Walters -
He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through,—to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.
Oliver Goldsmith