Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
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All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
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You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
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We are numb in our new electric world as the native involved in our literate and mechanical culture. (p. 16)
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Who knows how great and good a race of men may yet arise from the forming hands of mothers, enlightened by the bounty of their beloved country?
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The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
