Sam Smith Quotes
We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.Sam Smith
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
Naguib Mahfouz -
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
Daniel Craig -
The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
G. Willow Wilson -
The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
Orison Swett Marden -
My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
Kate McKinnon -
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken
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I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
Paloma Faith -
I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
Victoria Moran -
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
Kanye West -
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
Sam Shepard -
My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
Victoria Moran -
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
Irvin D. Yalom
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Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
Nat Wolff -
My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
Youssou N'Dour -
I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore.
Nadia Comaneci -
Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
Maeve Binchy -
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butler -
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen
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You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.
Abu Bakr -
This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
Arthur Golden -
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
This is making us feel like superstars. This is one of the best moments of my life.
Anthony Sampson -
I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.
Jason Segel -
We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.
Sam Smith