Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.