Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
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There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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It's not the average people that come to my show.
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I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
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I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
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Usually in a Smosh sketch, we get 60 shots, 12 hours to shoot - we're just going 'bam, bam, bam.'
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The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.
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Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.
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The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.
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Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
