Sam Smith Quotes
The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
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The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.
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I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.
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Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.
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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
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I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.
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The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.
