Stevie Smith Quotes
I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I don't do negative things.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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Lunch was my favorite part at school.
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You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen.
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America isn’t afraid to compete.
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The first principle of cosmology must be 'There is nothing outside the universe'. This is not to exclude religion or mysticism... But if it is knowledge that we desire... we need to seek answers to questions about the things we can see... only things that exist in the universe.
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Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience.
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My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.
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I did 'Lonely Hearts' with John Travolta and James Gandolfini. Talk about getting over your fears. These guys were amazing! Also, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is one of my favorites. We've made 3 films together. He is such a generous, giving actor.
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The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
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Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.
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I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.
