Matt Smith Quotes
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
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When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.
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The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.
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I don't want to be known as just a 'Dance Moms' competitor. I'd really like to be known for all of Sia's work, too.
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There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
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To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.
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Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. But science is always playing catch-up ball. Nature breaks its own rules whenever it wants. Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.
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There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.
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Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
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When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.
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As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.
