Stan Smith (Stanley Roger Smith) Quotes
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.
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It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.
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I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.
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It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism-Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete-opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
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Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm really sad or something, it will take me about a day. But I have a specific way of writing: I just listen to the beat. I think about what I'm going to write over the beat.
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Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast!
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My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.
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Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy - the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias - so easily to mind.
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I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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I don't know how to explain it. A lot of Christians actually like other Christians in Houston. A lot of Christians even like non-Christians in Houston. And, on frequent occasions, a fair amount of non-Christians like us.
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I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves.
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I never get involved with the ladies I work with.
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Winning is great, but it's the long road to get there that makes it worthwhile.
