Will Smith Quotes

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

Will Smith

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• My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

  

  Walead Beshty
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• I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

  

  Ted Turner
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• One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
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• As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

  

  Abraham Verghese
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• Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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• I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
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• There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.

  

  Nat Wolff
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• He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

  

  Samantha Smith
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• I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

  

  Ozzie Smith
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• It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

  

  Barbara Sher
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• I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

  

  Patricia Polacco
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• If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
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• If stem cells divide equally, so both daughter cells look more or less the same, each one becomes another stem cell. If the split is unequal, neurons form prematurely.

  

  Sam Kean
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• There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections.

  

  Daniel Dennett

• Theory consists in referring particular operations to the principles, or general laws, under which they are comprehended; or in referring particular effects to the causes from which they proceed.

  

  Adam Ferguson

• There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
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• … they who wore Mitres and helms and crowns, or wreaths of light, Signs of thought's empire over thought -their lore Taught them not this, to know themselves; their might Could not repress the mystery within.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
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• If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

  

  A. J. Liebling
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• It's so nice to run into people even now who - if I'm out, a couple of times a week, somebody comes up to me and says, 'I just loved you in '50 First Dates.' That movie is my favorite movie. I just watched it last night.' In my head, I'm always thinking, 'You're kidding me. I never watch anything twice.'

  

  Amy Hill
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• It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

  

  Christopher Bailey
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• I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

  

  Will Smith