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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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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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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It didn't really change my opinion about [Edward] Snowden all that much, but I definitely feel like as a culture, it gave us information that generated a responsibility to protect ourselves as much as we can and also a responsibility to hold our government accountable to honoring our constitutional rights.
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A week after you read this chapter, misandry will become apparent in commercials, in films, in everyday conversations. But the bias that is hardest to see is the bias we share.
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[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.
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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.
