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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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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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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Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.
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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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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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I played a really good guy for two years on 'Homeland,' and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.
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You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
