Sam Smith Quotes
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.
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The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.
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There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.
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For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
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In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
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My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.
