Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
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I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.
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Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
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I really liked the script of 'Alone.' I thought there were a lot unexpected things in the film, which I would want to watch as a viewer. I did not think like I was doing a horror film; I did not think in terms of genre. I decided on the basis of the script.
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I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
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Someone who says 'I am busy' is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
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I feel it's OK if not everybody agrees with me or likes me. The weird thing was it turned into people thinking I said we deserved it. I didn't say that - but Americans do need to look at their behavior in the world. It's easy to say, 'That was awful,' and hard to ask, 'Is there a way I can amend?'
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I immediately felt so comfortable there. Or if not comfortable, at least willing to bear the discomforts because they fit the awkward places in my heart.
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Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical habit that can be replicated. For pianists, this is much more of a problem than for other instruments, like the violin, where you actually have to think of the pitch.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
