Elliott Smith Quotes

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

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• You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Work
  • You
  • Air

• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Chance

• When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Home
  • Lost

• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
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• Actors are a race.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Race

• Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Years
  • Economics
  • Economists

• Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Death

• Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Great
  • You
  • Acting

• Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Kid

• I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Love

• Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Management
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• What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Good
  • Done

• Being an actor does make you aware of your age.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Age
  • You
  • Actor

• I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Rest
  • Acting

• I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Life
  • American
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• In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• Being a typical Briton, I love my home comforts and always try and find an English pub where I can tuck into some traditional English food, accompanied by a nice pint. Fortunately, I haven't been ill with food poisoning or anything like that, which is quite surprising considering how many different types of food I eat when I'm travelling.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Food
  • Traditional
  • Surprising

• Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • American
  • Free

• If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Nice

• The Lyme disease had so severely affected my brain functioning that it was extremely hard for me to think, form sentences, and stay focused.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Brain

• The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Up
  • World
  • Book

• Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

  

  Dee Hock
  • Country
  • History
  • Culture

• It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

  

  Elliott Smith
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