Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.Oliver Goldsmith
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I don't like controversy.
Sammy Sosa -
Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
Patricia Polacco -
Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
Eddie Trunk -
I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
Randy Houser -
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
Taylor Wilson -
I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
Gavin Newsom -
No one person is an island.
Yehuda Berg -
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
Laura Mennell -
I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
Abbas Kiarostami
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
Ted Danson -
I am definitely a person of color.
Vin Diesel -
This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
Barney Frank -
This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
Rahman Baba -
Few things are as essential as education.
Walter Annenberg -
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Danica McKellar
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I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
I think I might have to place you under arrest for trespassing. But I always go easy on pretty girls who confess.
Ellen Schreiber -
Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.
Loni Anderson -
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
Oliver Goldsmith