Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Musalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as rule is a coward.
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If you act externally with men in conformity with your rank, you should recognize, by a more secret but truer thought, that you have nothing naturally superior to them.
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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
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Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.
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It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
