Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
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One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.
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It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
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Ah, my Belov'ed fill the Cup that clears To-day Past Regrets and Future Fears: To-morrow! - Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.
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Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
