Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
And, as a bird each fond endearment triesTo tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies,He tried each art, reproved each dull delay,Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Quotes to Explore
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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Small aim is a crime.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.
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Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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I am permanently relaxed.
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I am mentally bifocal.
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Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own.
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You can put art experiences in different parts of the community where people who are shopping can take a break or explore an adjacent historical neighborhood unique to the city.
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.
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Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.
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And, as a bird each fond endearment triesTo tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies,He tried each art, reproved each dull delay,Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
