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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I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
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Something happens when you feel that energy and excitement from the audience. And you do, I don't know, four pirouettes. You jump higher than you ever have. And it's just this really magical thing that happens in those moments.
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Some of the policy measures that are important are politically difficult if taken independent of actions by others in support of common goals. Joint actions are therefore needed, and establishing a G-11 with an effective role for the IMF provides the viable way forward.
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If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.
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Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.
