Ian Smith Quotes
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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I grew six inches in a year.
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I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.
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I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
