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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I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.
E. O. Wilson
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All of the stars rotate, have orbits around the center of the galaxy, and most of them go around the center of the galaxy in nearly circular orbits. They vary a little bit from circular, but they're predominantly circular.
Nancy Roman
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My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
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I worked for a couple of screamers in my early days in Hollywood. I don't like being screamed at, and I am not myself a screamer.
Brian Grazer
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
Maeve Binchy
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The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.
Oliver Goldsmith
