Frederick W. Smith Quotes
A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
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The Republicans are coming - make nice.
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I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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I feel like I'm quite versatile. I want to do lots of different styles.
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.
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Yes, I realize that I see but a semblance, but so do you, and who is to say which is real?
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The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.
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With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.
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You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.
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All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.
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Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.
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Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.
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A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.
