Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
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I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I'm not a complete goofball, though.
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
