Stevie Smith Quotes
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.
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I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
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The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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Life was treasure. The only treasure.
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Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.
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Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
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You are the sun,You are the rainThat makes my life this foolish game.You need to knowI love you so.And I'd do it all again and again.
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In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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People buy products if they're better.
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If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
