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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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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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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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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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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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
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In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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You can't hunt a man if he's searching for you
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
