Brad D. Smith Quotes
About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.
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I would go on the record with my respect for Mike Madigan, which will probably upset a lot of friends. He's enormously skillful at what he does. The only speakers of any House who survive are the ones who can keep their majority and keep everyone going largely in the same direction. Mike Madigan is superb at that.
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I find it an exhausting experience, personally, to go to a party every night.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.
