Elliott Smith Quotes
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.
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How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
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Indie writers who promote their book instead of writing the next book are wasting their time. The more books you've written, the more books you'll sell. That's how it works. That's how it's always worked.
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I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.'
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I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.
