Stevie Smith Quotes

O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal noise.

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• I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

  

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• I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

  

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• We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

  

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• Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

  

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• The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

  

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• My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.

  

  Uwe Boll
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• I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
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• My focus is on my constituents.

  

  Randy Hultgren
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• I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.

  

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• A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

  

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• What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. Highest Common Factor, and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.

  

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  • World
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• Got bitches on my jock out in East Detroit, cause they think that I'm a motherfucking Beastie Boy.

  

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  • Boy

• There aint but one truth, said John Grady. The truth is what happened. It aint what come out of somebody's mouth.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Truth

• My parents are refugees from Vietnam, so they didn't grow up with 'Star Wars.' I don't think they know what's going on in the movie at any given time.

  

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• Australian seafarers make an important contribution to national security in a country with thousands of kilometres of uninhabited coastline.

  

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• Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

  

  Jeff Goodell

• An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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• It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Different

• Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Force
  • Capitalism
  • Remains

• O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal noise.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Dog
  • Boys
  • Noise