Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

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• You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

  

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• When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

  

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• Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.

  

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• Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.

  

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• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

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• I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

  

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• I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

  

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• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

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• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

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• It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.

  

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• Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

  

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• I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

  

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• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  

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• I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!

  

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• Different times need different types of leadership.

  

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• Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.

  

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• It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

  

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• From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.

  

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• My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.

  

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• It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

  

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• The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy; the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.

  

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• Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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