Elizabeth Smart Quotes
It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
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I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.
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The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.
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When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.
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Unless he really starts feeling good, in all likelihood I wouldn't think he'd go this week.
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I’ll never forget my very first [SNL] show. I had a card in my changing room from Kristen Wiig. It just had a heart on the inside, and she’d written “Have fun.” That always stayed with me.
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I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it's hard for me to discern. I don't like what it's doing to the world.
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Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.
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Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.
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Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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I'm not sure if the audience can smell tuna but the special guest each show definitely can.
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A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
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When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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I kind of lost my sense of organized religion and became more spiritual from the experience. I would walk in the woods and to the sand dunes and the lake every day. That spoke to me more than getting up at six and the morning and saying some prayers. That had nothing to do with religion to me.
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I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school. What first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history. That makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.
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Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.