Emmitt Smith Quotes
I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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When I get married it will be for keeps.
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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
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I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.
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The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
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I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?
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Sed ego adolescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum, ibique mihi multa adversa fuere. Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant.
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Taylor's Law states: 'The Foreign Office knows no secrets.'
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When the mind maintains awareness, yet does not mingle with the senses, nor the senses with sense impressions, then self-awareness blossoms.
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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
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When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.
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How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.
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That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.
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Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.
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I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.
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I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.
