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My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?


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JAMIE OLIVER All is not gold that glitters,
Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters
OLIVER GOLDSMITH He Oliver Cromwell in a furious manner, bid the Speaker leave his chair; told the house That they ha...
OLIVER CROMWELL Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants a...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in tot...
OLIVER STONE