Samuel Schmid Quotes
Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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I love playing odd roles.
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I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
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Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.
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It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.
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The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
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Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.
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Taking care of yourself is so important.
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Don't want terrorism in US? Stop importing Muslims!
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The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.
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Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life
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Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.
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All I do is work, that's all my life is work.
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Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.
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It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
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The best thing in life aren't things.
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Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.
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Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.
