Frederick W. Smith Quotes

The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Literature

• Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Nature
  • Like
  • Emotional

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Start

• I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Truth
  • True

• But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

  

  Dan Rather
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  • History
  • Opportunity

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Fortune
  • Pity

• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Country
  • Movie

• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Travel

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
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• Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.

  

  Larry David
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  • Stop
  • Person

• People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • People
  • Taste
  • Hotels

• My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Freedom
  • Artist
  • Creative

• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.

  

  M. Ward
  • Inspiration
  • Records
  • Sounds

• Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Government
  • Myself
  • Without

• I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
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  • Friend
  • Prom

• It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.

  

  Kaskade
  • House
  • Interesting
  • Chicago

• You know, the big Valbowski is a lot like concrete mix. You know? You just get it a little wet, take a step back, and watch it get ROCK HARD!

  

  Val Venis
  • Rock

• Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.

  

  Famke Janssen
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  • Money

• The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.

  

  Frederick W. Smith
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