Frederick W. Smith Quotes
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
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I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
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Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
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What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.
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Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
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Dawn will come even if the rooster is strangled.
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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
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With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.
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Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
