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.

  

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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

• Who said nights were for sleep?

  

  Marilyn Monroe
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• Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he God has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.

  

  Martin Luther
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• I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

  

  Colleen Haskell
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• My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

  

  Ryan Adams
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• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

  

  Anais Nin
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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