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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I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.
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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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To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
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Whenever you have a five-man that makes free throws, it makes it a lot easier because he's going to get fouled the most. He's been working hard and it's paid off for him.
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The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
