Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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It ain't over till it's over.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.
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I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it's me on that screen and I don't have control over everything in this and I'm grateful and thankful.
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All human suffering concerns each human being.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
