Matt Smith Quotes
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.
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I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
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If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.
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We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.
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I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
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I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
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As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.
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I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
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I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
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You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Avoiding Procrastination: Doing things at the last minute is much more expensive than just before the last minute. Deadlines are really important: establish them yourself!
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Our most urgent problem just now is how to preserve in a positive and critical form the soul of truth in the two great traditions, classical and Christian, that are crumbling as mere dogma.
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As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
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For strangers, what I get a lot is people calling me the opposite of what I am.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
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Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.
