Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Hour by hour, minute by minute, I make decisions that seem like the right things to do at the time but which prevent me from reflecting on the most significant, most critical fact in my life: Every day, I participate in a system that is weaponizing our big, gorgeous planet against our kids.
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For me, the things like the Confederate flag - I just don't think that it does anybody much good, and it certainly causes a lot of people a lot of pain.
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He Quoyle did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
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A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
