Dodie Smith Quotes
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I would like my kids to study well.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.
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I was a campaign widow.
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
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It's important to see color. We are not the same. We have very different experiences.
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Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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The way you were born is the way you were born. Nothing can change it. I've got a deep voice. I know. I might look tough, but what are you going to do? Do you think you can change it? No.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
