Matt Smith Quotes
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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 believe his arrest and detention by the international criminal tribunal is unconstitutional, and goes against Yugoslav and international law. They have no right to try him.
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We believe that personal independence and equal human rights can never be forfeited, except for crime; that marriage should be an equal and permanent partnership, and so recognized by law; that until it is so recognized, married partners should provide against the radical injustice of present laws, by every means in their power...
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I shall have more to say when I am dead.
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The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
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For those of us that were involved from the first days of 'Battlestar,' we were encouraged to give of ourselves and to feel that we had a voice, not just as the character but as part of the family that created the show. It changed me, certainly.
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I shouldn't even be here, so if I'm here, I better do something good.
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Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.
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Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.
