Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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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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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
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Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
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So what does it matter where it was when it was hit? We could have sunk it if it'd been tied up on the quayside in a neutral port and everyone would still have been delighted.
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They just want to get a handle on you and the idea, and that's enough. Some people sense more but they don't really get into it because it's going one step too far. But the whole idea of making art is to be open, to be generous, and absorb the viewer and absorb yourself, to let them go into it. I have to go into all those places in order to make it work.
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I have three children and three dogs. You put them in a Prius, you know? People who have a Prius obviously have no life! No wife, no kids, no pets - there's no room in there for anything!
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But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.
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The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
