Anthony Charles Hockley Smith (A.C.H. Smith) Quotes
Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I'm evangelical.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.
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I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.
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When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
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Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
