Zachary Cole Smith Quotes
I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong,Come and love your daddy all night long.All right now, hey hey, all right.See the girl with the diamond ring;She knows how to shake that thing.All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey.Tell your mama, tell your pa,I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas.Oh yes, ma'm, you don't do right, don't do right.
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I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
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I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
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There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.
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I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.
