Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I love football, football is my life.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.
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Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.
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If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.
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Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.
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I know more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running, with perhaps the exception of Hillary Clinton.
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If you're thinking like that - 'Does this person want me for me?' - then you're gonna have a hell of a hard time falling in love, 'cause you're constantly thinking about what they look like on paper.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.
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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
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In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.
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He conquers who endures.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.
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The sigh that rends thy constant heartShall break thy Edwin's too.
