Gold Quotes
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted genius and active minds are generally most perfect slaves to the love of fame. They sometimes descend to as mean tricks and artifices in pursuit of honor or reputation as the miser descends to in pursuit of gold.
John Adams
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I always come into these competitions hoping to come away with a gold medal. I won't relax until I have the gold medal around my neck.
Katie Taylor
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Spend as much time as you can in silence. Look at the way the sun paints the ground gold.
Carolyn Chute
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Now, there is no business like show business, and there is no publicity like word of mouth. What is word of mouth, you may ask? Well, word of mouth is gold to Hollywood bigwigs, and it equates to box office bonanzas and hit TV shows.
Kristoffer Polaha
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I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.
John Niven
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When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.
Lesley Gore
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With this hip-hop generation they think about who has gold teeth, instead of the destiny of mankind.
Orlando Jones
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At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.
Alain Macklovitch
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Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
William Shakespeare
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Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,Gold that I never see;Lie long, high snowdrifts in the hedgeThat will not shower on me.
A. E. Housman
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Pike, three inches long, perfectPike in all parts, green tigering the gold.Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.
Ted Hughes
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She ain't into wine and rosesBeer just makes her turn up her nose andShe can't stand the thought of sipping champagneNo Cuervo gold margaritasJust ain't enough good burn in tequilaShe needs somethin' with a little more edgeAnd a little more painShe's my little whiskey girl, she's my little whiskey girlMy ragged on the edges girl, ah but I like em rough.
Toby Keith
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I ain't going to say everything I touch turns to gold or camouflage. I've got to work hard to keep what I've got. Nothing comes easy to me. It never has.
Boo Weekley
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Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.
Marianne Williamson
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Words can't even describe how much Olympic medals means to me, because of all the hard work, sacrifice and effort I put in at the gym, and also because of how much my family supported me and sacrificed their dreams for mine. It also means a lot to me, knowing that I became the first African American to win the individual all-around gold medal.
Gabby Douglas