Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
Rachel Johnson -
Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
Kate Moss -
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
Ian Hacking -
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
Iain Duncan Smith -
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman -
Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
Lana Del Rey
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken -
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
Sadie Frost -
I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
Cameron Mathison -
The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
Vince Cable
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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
Adam Lambert -
Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I'm lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt.
Daniel Cormier -
You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.
Naomie Harris -
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
Aaron Yoo -
If you go to the protests now, you will see something you never saw before: hundreds of women. They shout and sing, they even sleep there in tents. This is not just a political revolution, it's a social revolution
Tawakkol Karman -
It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the law and treated as indifferent by public opinion. It is only through children that relations cease to be a purely private matter.
Bertrand Russell
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens -
An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there in a Daguerreotype so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.
Walt Whitman -
Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
Tim Ferriss -
Who peppered the highest was surest to please.
Oliver Goldsmith