Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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I will run against anybody.
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
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'Illusion' is a story of God's love and our hunger to find him when we're separated from him. If I can paint a picture of two people still in love after 40 years, that's a pretty good message.
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'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'
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Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being - not a constant state - that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.
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People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.
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The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.
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Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
