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.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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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.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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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.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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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.
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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
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In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
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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?
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But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
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My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together.
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I got an early education from television.
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I hated stand-up.
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
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I will say this - I certainly will not be voting for Hillary Clinton.
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This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
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Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
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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.
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No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.
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The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.
