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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As Duke Ellington once said, 'the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton.' ... About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eton business - well, I married my first wife in Elkton, and I always hated the place. It musta stuck.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.
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That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
