Stevie Smith Quotes
Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
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I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.
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This is the first step in determining whether and how Congress can provide a solution.
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If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
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When you think of the former high school football star, you think 6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character. Since I'm not 6-foot-2 or white, I just thought about what I could bring to it. I thought about Smash Williams from 'Friday Night Lights,' like the cocky quarterback, and played around with that.
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I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.
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And with this show we're trying to be a little sillier. We can do a piece like one we wrote the other day called "Ghost Busters Busters". Where would never do that in a million years on Mr. Show, but somehow on this show it's silly and stupid and a little more disposable, so we can do something like that.
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What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
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Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.
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The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.
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I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.
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I am confident that there are hedge funds, banks or investment companies that could allocate five percent of their portfolios for risky investments. In any event, for countries like Afghanistan the formation of an entrepreneurial class is of vital importance.
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And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.
