Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I do not like violence.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them
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I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written, and I enjoy doing so because I have a lot of stories to tell, and I like making audiences laugh. But that's not acting. That's just me being me.
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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
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I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
