Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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Actors don't have real value.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can't engage in that kind of stuff because I'll never stop. So I no longer play any games.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
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There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.