Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
Jack Nicklaus
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
Larry Kramer
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
Harold Pinter
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
Harold Prince
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
Felicity Jones
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
Barry Sanders
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
Garth Brooks
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I just like the themes it's exploring. In the way my character says, 'I want us to become brothers again, like we used to be.' I really like that line, and it means a lot to me. I just find there's a lot of things like that in this movie that have that feeling. There's stuff that feels exhilarating.
Owen Wilson
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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
Quintilian
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In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
A. J. Muste
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Somewhere in my closetThere's a cardboard box just sittin' on a shelf.It's full of faded memoriesAnd it's been there ever since the night you left.Oh, just forgotten photographsTo remind me of the past.Oh, but I can still see everything just fine.Who needs pictures with a memory like mine?Yeah, who needs pictures with a memory like mine?
Brad Paisley
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God really exists, I tell you like this:
It resides inside.
And anybody tell you different,
Just selling you religion,
Tryin' to keep your ass in line.
Killer Mike
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I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.
William Godwin
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In Sheffield, we need support from the community and for the community. We need integration with no loss of heritage, and a clear appreciation of what is and is not acceptable.
David Blunkett
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There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.
Oliver Goldsmith
